[98625] in RedHat Linux List
RE: A script problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Mon Nov 9 21:16:10 1998
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 21:03:51 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Jan Carlson <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Sorry, I fumbled and somehow sent that last message before finishing.
Zoki,
I'm sure you understand know, but just for everyone's sake, I want to point
out that what you did worked because as Tony said, $USER already contained
the user name.
>'/usr/bin/id -un'=USER
This line did absolutely nothing
>if [ "$USER" = "zokiphoto" ]; then
but $USER saved the day.
'/usr/bin/id -un'=$USER would have assigned the poorly named variable
'/usr/bin/id -un' the current user, and perhaps something like
if [ ${'/usr/bin/id -un'} = "zokiphoto" ]; then
might have worked
charles
>> >#!/bin/sh
>> >
>> >'/usr/bin/id -un'=USER
>>
>> Shoudn't this line read:
>>
>> USER='/usr/bin/id -un'
>
>No, because USER already has this value.
>Bash maintains it for you.
-- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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