Date: 06 Jul 1998 00:14:37 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, heller@cdnow.com Subject: Re: July 2nd SNAP question. Message-ID: <xzpsokgq71u.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Stefan Eggers's message of "Sun, 05 Jul 1998 18:25:18 %2B0200" References: <199807051625.SAA26093@semyam.dinoco.de>
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Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> writes: > > echo -n ' hostname' > ^ ^ > You have apostrophe/single quote characters where you need the backtick > characters. So echo just outputs the string " hostname" instead of the > result of executing hostname. No, it's supposed to be like that. The intent is to signal that the hostname has been set, not *what* hostname has been set. If you look closely at /etc/rc*, you'll se a lot of these "echo -n 'xxx'". DES -- One two, one two, one two. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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