[98692] in RedHat Linux List
Re: A script problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Nov 10 05:41:33 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:40:04 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
To: Jan Carlson <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Mail-Followup-To: Jan Carlson <redhat-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811100206.VAA01308@smtp1.erols.com>; from Charles Galpin on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:03:51PM -0500
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Charles Galpin writes:
[...]
> 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 [ ${'/usr/bin/id -un'} = "zokiphoto" ]; then
>
> might have worked
For completness sake:
if [ "${'/usr/bin/id -un'}" = "zokiphoto" ]; then
^ ^
might have worked... ;-)
Thomas
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