display and output...question

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi, I have a small question about the value cannot display correctly:

MSG=log
fruit=apple
print "No $fruit in the store" > "$MSG/fruit_message.txt"

output: No $fruit in the store
should be: No apple in the store

AND
$MSG/fruit_message.txt ----------> cannot find the fruit_message.txt in log directory

For the output, the message can be BOLD or HIGHTLIGHT or special output like this?

Also,
While I run the script to remove file, the following output will be display..it look not very good output. Can the error message not showing on the screen?
Also can it write into the log file?

/bin/rm $MSG/temp_fruit1.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/temp_fruit2.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/fruit_missing.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/fruit_nomissing.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/fruit_result.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/fruit_output_m1.txt
/bin/rm $MSG/fruit_output_m2.txt

output:
/log/temp_fruit1.txt: No such file or directory
/log/temp_fruit2.txt: No such file or directory
/log/fruit_missing.txt: No such file or directory
/log/fruit_nomissing.txt: No such file or directory
/log/fruit_result.txt: No such file or directory
/log/fruit_output_m1.txt: No such file or directory
/log/fruit_output_m2.txt: No such file or directory

2

I do not get your result:

$
$ MSG=log
$ fruit=apple
$ print "No $fruit in the store" > "$MSG/fruit_message.txt"
$ cat log/fruit_message.txt
No apple in the store
$
3

Is the problem..I am using "if":

if( flag != 1 )
print "No $fruit file in the store" > "$MSG/fruit_message.txt"
} ' $MSG/fruit_result.txt

4

What language are you using? That syntax is not bash or ksh.

5

my script start with #!/bin/sh and using some command like awk..

6

Can you show the full code?