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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Nauman Yousuf wrote:
#!/bin/bash
echo Please, new Drive for Drive 1 enter /dev/sda and for 2 Drive enter
/dev/sdb
read DRIVE
echo "Drive is $DRIVE"
if [ $DRIVE = "/dev/sdb" ];then
{/sbin/sfdisk -d /dev/sda > $DRIVE.out
/sbin/sfdisk $DRIVE < $DRIVE.out}
This syntax is wrong; you should be seeing errors from bash. Try this:
if [ $DRIVE = "/dev/sdb" ]; then
{ /sbin/sfdisk ... ;
/sbin/sfdisk ... ;
}
fi
The whitespace and semicolons are required for a group command using {}.
Cheers,
Phil
