Hi Paul, Apology that was typo, I meant ln -s
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
