From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 5 12:11:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29630 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:11:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from runner.jjsoft.com (jahanur.intur.net [206.97.149.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29622 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 12:11:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jahanur@jjsoft.com) Received: from localhost (jahanur@localhost) by runner.jjsoft.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA27732; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:10:30 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 14:10:30 -0600 (CST) From: jahanur To: Dan Busarow cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What does it mean (Thank you) 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 Thank you everybody for helping me solv this problem. Jahanur FreeBsd Help GURUS are the Best people on this earth. On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Dan Busarow wrote: > 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