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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting bad substitution error in ksh Post 302485015 by clx on Tuesday 4th of January 2011 02:02:21 AM
Old 01-04-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by adshocker
does that mean i have an older version of shell that prevented me from using sh?
You probably have older version of bourne shell in which string operations doesn't work.
When you say "sh" that means bourne shell.
 

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