Pavel V. Piankov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 March 1999 at 14:43:47 +0300
>
> Hi,
> it looks like you have a very special Unix tho (:
> the scriptie worked fine for me.
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:48:25AM -0700, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
> > Has anyone managed to get this to run?
> > My /bin/sh doesn't do ~ expansion
> > and the awk line appears tohave syntax errors with either the "
> > or the ` or both.
The real Bourne shell does not do ~ expansion. Bash DOES do ~
expansion. Bash is commonly found as /bin/sh on Linux boxes, and I
hear on *BSD as well. So actually, the person writing the script had
the unusual Unix.
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