ah..yes..i missed that..perfect..

Regards
Kalyan


On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 12:06:54AM +0530, kalyan wrote:
> > Hi John,
> > I actually tried out these examples:
> >
> > case 1:
> > test:
> >         @export QA_STEP=start;touch ${QA_STEP}
> > This case actually gave the error of "touch: file arguments missing".
> Note
> > that using curly or normal braces gave the same error.
>
> The intention here is to do it in the shell.
> So the obvious fix is to escape the dollar sign like this:
>
> test:
>        @export QA_STEP=start;touch $${QA_STEP}
>
> Note the double $$
>
>        Sam
>
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