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variable not being used correctly by grep in shell script
I'm writing a script to resize vagrant boxes. I'm struggling with a section, which is supposed to close media. I provide the path to the vmdk file and the new size to the script.
An example path is /root/.vagrant.d/boxes/tes
The section is as follows:
for disk in `$execsudo vboxmanage list hdds | grep -B4 $1 | grep - | grep UUID | awk \ '{print $2}'`
do
$execsudo vboxmanage closemedium disk $disk
done
It is not correctly using $1. I've tried various quoting etc. I'd appreciate some assistance.
An example path is /root/.vagrant.d/boxes/tes
The section is as follows:
for disk in `$execsudo vboxmanage list hdds | grep -B4 $1 | grep - | grep UUID | awk \ '{print $2}'`
do
$execsudo vboxmanage closemedium disk $disk
done
It is not correctly using $1. I've tried various quoting etc. I'd appreciate some assistance.
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