Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 18:16:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Unga <unga888@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to say this in Bash? Message-ID: <4A1AD273.6030702@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <141688.69137.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <141688.69137.qm@web57006.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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Unga wrote:
> --- On Mon, 5/25/09, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> w=
rote:
> Here is what happens in bash shell:
> $ echo "${X}" > ${Z}
> bash: ${Z}: ambiguous redirect
So, what's the value of ${Z}? Unless that expands to something that
could be a valid file name you'll get an error message of some sort.
hint: add
set -x
somewhere towards the top of the script and it will print a lot of debug
output as it runs.
Cheers,
Matthew
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