I am writing a script to fix a missing 'F' letter in a mail log file. The mail log file is continuously updating. I am getting a file name, after that I am doing 'sudo su' to get superuser access. Inside sudo, I am fixing a that missing 'F'. However, I am unable to use that file name inside sudo block. Please can anyone help me how I can export these shell variables inside sudo? I tried using export but its not working. The code block I have created is as follows-
#Script to solve F issue
#----------------------------------------
#By Kapil Shirsath
#----------------------------------------
cd /var/spool/mail #mail files reside in mail folder
echo "Entered in mail folder"
filename=`ls -lrt 99999*| sort -k 5 -rn | head -1 | tr -s " " "," | cut -d "," -f "8"` # this will list the file with maximum size`
echo "File with maximum size is $filename"
echo "----------------------------------------------------"
echo "Is it the file expected?(y/n)"
read choice
if test $choice == "n"
then
echo "Exiting...."
exit;
fi;
c=1
while [ $c -le 5 ]
do
ls -lrt $filename
echo $filename
sleep 3
c=`expr $c + 1`
done
echo "---------------------------------------------------"
sudo su<<'HERE' #this will give you super user permissions
echo "Got root access"
echo "First line of the file is as below :"
head -1 $filename
echo "---------------------------------------"
firstline=`head -1 $filename`
echo "Repeat : $firstline"
echo $firstline | grep ^"rom" >/dev/null
if test $? -eq 0
then
ex -s $filename <<'EOF'
1s/^/F/
:wq
EOF
echo "F issue fixed!"
HERE
c=1
while [ $c -le 5 ]
do
ls -lrt $filename
sleep 3
c=`expr $c + 1`
done
echo "---------------------------------------------------"
else
echo "Not finding the missing 'F' ! !! Kindly check with your system "
exit;
fi;