From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 11:52:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27276 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:52:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27269 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA15876; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:51:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 11:51:58 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow To: jahanur cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does it mean In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, jahanur wrote: > I am installing a software into FreeBsd 2.2.5 Server. > In the instruction it said to do this : > > > for i in 'cat /mnt/cdrom/courses/list.txt' > do > mkdir $i > cd $i > tar xvf /mnt/cdrom/courses/$i.tar > cd .. > done > > It was instructed to do this from directory where I want it to be > installed. It does not what shell to user. > I do it and it creates dir by the name cat xvf cd and it stops. > And gives me such as /cdrom/courses/cat not found. Those single quotes in the first line of the command are supposed to be accent graves, the back tick. The key just to the left of the "1" Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message