On 19/02/14 23:32, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 19.02.2014 10:53, Scott Ferguson a écrit : >> Just read your last post before sending this, so this may no longer be >> relevant... I don't know that you need to quote the variables. I use >> coloured bash
coloured *editor* i.e. nano, vi/emac, dex[*1] or Kwrite is what I meant to write. If anyone knows of a way to colourise the syntax in xterm (especially 'fc' temp) I'd be *very* interested. [*1.] https://github.com/tihirvon/dex >> so it is usually obvious if I need to. P.S. without the >> quotes you won't need the escapes - just quote the whole filename (which >> may be what you are lacking). > > I use colors too ( and I have no idea about the reason to disable colors > by default in Debian... ), but I really do not like interpreted > languages. My opinion is that stuff written with them are messy, but at > least, shell is handier than C++ to manage files and shell commands... > so sometimes I try to automate small tasks with it. Maybe someday I will > become efficient with it. I keep telling myself the same thing - in the meantime I debug (with a hammer). > > The error was that I had too many quotes, so some of them were included > in the name, I noted Andre's response (and keener eye) The #!/bin/(bash or sh) -x is useful, after parsing the script you'll see the outcomes on screen You may find these useful:- set -x # same as the minus x in the shell invocation line trap "echo hit return;read x" DEBUG # step through one line at a time set -o nounset # display unset variables function pause(){ # wot it says read -p "$*" } #pause 'Press [Enter] key to continue...' > but for a reason I can not understand, echo did not > displayed them. Colourised nano/vim etc might make it easier to spot. I've linked my (dodgy) ~/.bashrc in case it proves useful (you should avoid the lines followed by "hack" comments.) If you wish:- $ mv ~/.bashrc{,.bak} replace with my version http://paste.debian.net/82999 $ . .~/bashrc I use the nano syntax rules from:- https://github.com/nanorc/nanorc <snipped> Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5305574c.40...@gmail.com