[OSM-dev] Tiger to OSM script

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Sat Jul 7 06:11:13 BST 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 00:02 -0400, Ben Slater wrote:
> I'm trying to use your tiger-zip-to-osm.sh script and having problems.  
> Whenever I enter "sh tiger-zip-to-osm.sh TGR51683.ZIP", I get the 
> message "4:  Syntax error:  Bad substitution".   This seems to happen no 
> matter what I enter as the ZIP file.

This is actually an error coming out of the shell.  I'm using bash-isms
in tiger-zip-to-osm.sh, so you really need to run 'bash tiger-zip...'
instead of 'sh tiger-zip...'.  Ubuntu doesn't use bash as its
default /bin/sh any more.  Silly Ubuntu.

I'll change the readme.

-- Dave





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