On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:39:21 +0530, Peter wrote: >Hi, > >I issued > >ln --s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc From /Maintp21 but it gave me a >different result > >etc == > \$SYSNAMEetc > >so i was expecting > >etc === > $SYSNAME/etc > >Could you please point with the correct syntax. > First, it should be "ln -s", not "ln --s".
I wonder which shell you're using, and what "ln --s" means to it. >On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >> The $ is a meta character to the shell; it asks the shell to replace the >> variable following the $ with the valur of the variable. If you want to >> keep the $ as $, you need to escape it by preceeding it with he backslash. >> >> ls -s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
