On Oct 19, 2004, at 01:47, Allan Odgaard wrote in reply to Mats' numerous questions:
Not sure how much shell stuff you know!?!
Hmm, well not enough it seems. : ) Have written a number of conditional shell scripts that create back-ups of MySQL DBs; httpd.conf files and so on which in my world is pretty advanced. My problem has more to do with understanding the logic behind it all. Sort of why do I do this rather than that ??? Never been good at grammar, so I am slow in understanding the underlying structure of the shell world, and I end up being confused.
Hence I did not realise that I just needed the 'echo' in there, which is obvious to me now. Thanks for taking the time to point that out for me. Both you & Sune. Much appreciated.
Perhaps I could suggest that you guys who know and understand this stuff could create a ShellScriptCorner on the wiki where you could translate the incomprehensible stuff into examples and ENGLISH for us non-geek's. Because the writers of man files and online UNIX guides sure as hell hasn't.
It's a good idea, though personally I'm probably better at answering concrete questions than writing general tutorials/documentation.
I created such a page on the wiki, and will try to get the above problem up there as an example in the next few days.
Kind regards,
Mats