Tom Cook wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, you wrote:
[OT ranting]
>
> Given that we are using this in a startup script, it might not be a good thing
> to use ksh. I personally (and I think a lot of other people, but I'm not sure)
> put ksh in /usr/local/bin, which is not necessarily available at all points
> during the boot. I do this because I like to keep all things in /bin
> statically linked, so it's all there when I need to do a bare minimum boot.
> Also, many linux systems don't come with ksh by default. So you can guarantee
> /bin/sh to be on pretty much _every_ UNIX under the Sun (sorry, couldn't
> resist that pun), but ksh is not as ubiquitous.
Good point. I'd forgotten the whole point of this thread :-) I agree
completely.
> Also ${...} does not work like that on any bash I have installed, but I'm still
> RedHat 6.2 and Tru64 5.0.4, so maybe that's it.
We're talking about dollar parenthesis, not dollar brace. It should
work.
Toby.
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