"Slightly" off topic (Freeradius that is): "Unix is User Friendly - It's just "picky" about it's Friends!"
Something an old unix guru told me once - long, long ago.... Gary N. McKinney Network Administrator Computer Services Dept. Brevard County Library System ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 14:25:35 -0400 >Alan DeKok wrote: >> Chris Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> It may be a common UNIX problem, but it's not like UNIX prevents >>>you from handling it. >> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] aland]$ mkdir "hello there" >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] aland]$ cd hello\ there/ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello there]$ FOO=`pwd` >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] hello there]$ cd .. && cd $FOO >> bash: cd: /home/aland/hello: No such file or directory >> >> Unix doesn't make it easy, either. > > That depends on your shell. Those commands work just >fine in zsh. In bash (or any other bourne shell) you can >cd "$FOO" to work around that problem. I mean, you're >using an itentifier. It's just because it is legal without >quotes that noone uses them by habit. I tend to when >shell programming, cause it's just "safer" and never >wrong. > > (*shrug*) But, you're right, UNIX doesn't make it >easy. Not as hard as having backslashes in directory >names, but... :-) > > - Chris > >- >List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Ant-Virus Scanner] > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the KillerWebMail system at mail.brev.org - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
