**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:30

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:30

I have a script (bash).

I want to specify redirect to stdout to a file name that is a variable, "ofile"

for f in `ls NW*.txt`
do
base=${f:0:6}
ofile="${base}_cleaned.txt"
python3 ../software/cleanTextGridOutput.py $f > ${ofile}
done

This is creating an empty file with the name specified as ofile.

Help?

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:31

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:31

.. and now for some reason, it's working all of a sudden..

Thanks duckies! :)

**xtof54** @xtof54@octodon.social · Apr 19, 2017, 19:35

**xtof54** @xtof54@octodon.social · Apr 19, 2017, 19:35

@Rolston disk caching ? should wait for flushing maybe

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · 2017-04-19T19:38:45Z

Leanne :speech_balloon: @Rolston

@xtof54 How does one flush? Just keep running until it works??

So the syntax was correct?

**xtof54** @xtof54@octodon.social · Apr 19, 2017, 19:41

**xtof54** @xtof54@octodon.social · Apr 19, 2017, 19:41

@Rolston I think it's ok ;-)

For flushing I smtimes replace redirect with

script -f
(not sure about the option tho)
but it's a different use case :-/

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:43

**Leanne :speech_balloon:** @Rolston · Apr 19, 2017, 19:43

@xtof54 Ok. Cool.

I got it to work again, so I am going to try not to touch it anymore. :)