Text formating issue

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I am trying to format the output of my script in a tabular format
using the html code in my shell script.

I am using html code for the first time in a shell script.I am trying to execute this script in Ksh but it is not getting executed.

Can you please help me in figuring this out.
Thanks in anticipation.

Regards
Isaac

2

could you please open the lid of your box so that we can see the script?

3

Hi

it would be helpful if u could throw some more light on ur problem :smiley:

cheers

4

Given below is the code that i am trying to execute .

cat << EOF
<html> 
<table>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th><th class="greyCol"Format</th>
<th><th class="greyCol"1:00 AM</th>
<th><th class="greyCol"2:00 AM</th>
<th><th class="greyCol"5:00 AM</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td class="blueCol"UK Express A50</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$5460</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$25460</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td class="blueCol"Express C10</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$2012</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$1_2012</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td class="blueCol"Patch</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$2978</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$12978</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td class="blueCol"Non Patch</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$3009</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$43009</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"N/A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><td class="blueCol"ROI Super</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$13504</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"$3504</td>
<td><td class="blueCol"N/A</td>
</tr>
</table> 
</html> 
EOF
5

Hi,
don't You mean to use echo and redirection (>)? The cat command expects a file name to conCATenate.

Best regards,
Lakris

6

You are missing a dash '-' (No the dash doesnt matter, cat << EOF and cat <<-EOF are the same.).

its cat <<-EOF
...
<your stuff here>
...
EOF

And it will just echo the your stuff to the terminal.

7

sorry, I was wrong about the cat... stdin is used when no file is specified.

But, is the HTML table definition really correct? There are open <td in the code?

/L