On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:58:10PM +0100, Damien Bergamini wrote: > any particular reason to use a syntax different from the one > in the drivers man pages? > > i.e: > ifconfig wpi0 wpa wpapsk `wpa-psk wlan supersecret` > instead of: > ifconfig wpi0 nwid wlan wpa wpapsk $(wpa-psk wlan supersecret)
`<technobabble>` is sh, $(<technobabble>) is ksh. I believe both work on our sh. As long as one is not doing any quoting inside I don't think there is much difference although I prefer $(). .... Ken > > you really want to specify the ssid with nwid too. > > Damien > > > | CVSROOT: /cvs > | Module name: src > | Changes by: blamb...@cvs.openbsd.org 2009/02/15 10:33:13 > | > | Modified files: > | sbin/ifconfig : ifconfig.8 > | > | Log message: > | Give an example of how to use wpa-psk(8) to connect to WPA > | networks in the wpapsk section of the page. > | > | ok deraadt@ henning@ > |
