[TextMate] Custom Shell Variables question

[Mats Persson]

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