Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:29:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more info Re: how did I manage this? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909121224360.7847-100000@crb.crb-web.com> In-Reply-To: <19990912101345.F14022@holly.calldei.com>
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On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 10:13:45 -0500 > From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> > To: Wayne Cuddy <wayne@crb-web.com> > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: more info Re: how did I manage this? > > On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > However, if do a 'cd \$DEST_DIR' I end up in the root directory. If I do a > > > 'rm $DEST_DIR/', I get 'rm: /: is a directory'. If it can't be a hard link I > > > have no idea what it is. > > > > That's because $DEST_DIR is expanding to "/". > > Oops! No it's not. It's expanding to nothing because it's > unset. See my second paragraph (sentence): > > > Try unsetting that variable and then enclosing it in single > > quotes in your rm command. > > -- > |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> > |A low level language is one whose programs > |require attention to the irrelevant. > `------------------------------------------ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > It is not set but also it will not expand to nothing as I prefixed it with the '\' character. For instance if you do 'ls \$HOME' the ls command will look for an entry of $HOME. However I went ahead and tried the single quotes and some more commands (output below): >rm '$DEST_DIR' rm: $DEST_DIR: is a directory >ls '$DEST_DIR' $2 Interestingly enough 2 is the inode number of both the root directory and the root directory of the /home partition. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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