On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Scott D. Yelich wrote:
> > > > rm ~/.rbltmp.bak
> > > 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.
> > Traditional bourne shells did not do tilde expansion. The newer sh that
> > comes with OS's like FreeBSD will do tilde expansion. It's best to use csh
> > for tilde expansion to maintain portability, or to explicitly use bash.
>
> Why not change "~" to /tmp/.rbls.$$ or /tmp/.rbls.$$.$USER or something
> and be done with limiting code? The echo with " inside the awk is
> also nasty. I'm not trying to critisize the programmer -- although
> it is amusing to see my "non standard standard solaris" system
> referenced again.
Have you ever heard about symlink-in-tmp problems?.. That is a classic mistake.
> Scott
/ Joel Eriksson
