On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 10:31:02PM +0000, der.hans wrote: > Am 06. Jul, 2017 schwätzte Jonathan Marquardt so: > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 09:53:15PM +0000, der.hans wrote: > > > When running the command, your current shell evaluates the variable and > > > replaces it with the variable's value before starting the echo command. > > > When echo is run the command has already turned into "echo /bin/bash" or > > > whatever your shell is, then echo produces "/bin/bash" as the output. > > > > Yes, I thnk that OP's problem is that there is no output, probably because > > the > > variable is not declared or empty. > > Javier's response hints at the mystery. > > The plain text version of the email stopped after the "echo $SHELL" line, > but there are a couple if statements and a question in the html version.
Wow! Indeed, the plain text version is missig something. Another reason to follow the netiquette and stop sending these stupid HTML mails...
