Hi, I had the same problem. Do the following:
find $(TMPDIR) -name '*~' | while read line; do rm "$$line"; done Cheers, Nestor -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas Charles Leippe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can't get shell var to work in rule I have in one of my rules: find $(TMPDIR) -name '*~' | while read line; do rm "$line"; done when executed it becomes: find /tmp -name '*~' | while read line; do rm "ine"; done I've tried all combinations of escapes and haven't been able to figure it out. make 3.79.1 under cygwin (w2k) bash 2.05a.0(2) Nick _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
