The real reason: Because the last programmer was a sadist. -Blake
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:32 PM, andrew mcelroy <[email protected]> wrote: > > 10 points awarded to team Toth. This is exactly right. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 25, 2014, at 1:18 PM, Csaba Toth <[email protected]> wrote: > > My guess: "Starting process" wants to be an environment variable's name, and > it needs to be escaped by double quotes because it contains a space. > Conclusion: do not have spaces in environment variable names in any > circumstances. > > If you say "set" on the command prompt, all of the env variables will be > listed (plus more). > Say 'set | grep "Starting"', and see if there is such an environment > variable (with space in the name). > > Csaba > > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I am looking at a reference script that includes a line: >> >> echo $"Starting process" >> >> I understand echo $ENV_VAR and I understand echo "Some String". Why the >> $ in front of a string?? >> >> Howard >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "NLUG" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
