On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:12:15AM -0500, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > Yes, I did. However some sources that I read had the 1 placed in quotations > to look like this: > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > The reason for this I am not sure. This type of scripting is new to me.
Somewhere in the back of me head this little voice wispers: it's because some older shells automagically switched from integers to strings and vice versa, and sometimes it matters whether it's an integer or a string, so the habbit of making it explicit. However, I'm not sure that voice is sane:) -- groetjes, carel
