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You peeps are awesome!
Thank you for the shell quoting refresher course!

Cheers!

Hello,

I do not know why the output from these two methods differs. One method retains the newlines, the other method appears to ignore or lose the newlines.

Writing a file with the...

I found my bug. I was mucking up command line data before getopts
even had a chance to get a whack at it! Do'h! <Sheepishly> It was
caused by something I was not showing. Ugh.

My "main" was...

Hmmm... I wonder what I was doing incorrectly, then?
I will investigate again and get back to this thread.

Thank you!

PS: thx for the nifty way to test options too!

Hi,

I'm using bash and ksh93 compatible derivatives.

In a recent getopts experience, I found myself spending far too much
time on this little problem. I hope someone can help...

So...

perhaps, if you are doing system programming or administration, then
bash (ksh93) has a more natural and native set of keywords and
semantics, as the underlying command line shell.

if one's...

as usual, the solution seems trivial.
Is there an explanation why the mount and umount are
not "symmetrical" with respect to the chroot. ?

in script:

mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc...

I believe this "member" is up to no good.

Jessie2

Thank you for the info!
Hey! maybe there is a work-around?...

Perhaps I should describe the goal? That always seems to help. :)

The motivation for chroot'ing is that I am not familiar with...

There are different ways to interpret your question.

is it possible for you to elaborate or describe an example of what you want?

Hello,

I am trying to automate a task that I believe is easy. It is documented
for manual system administrative purposes here:
Gentoo Linux -- Installing the Gentoo Base System - chapter 6...

well, there is this:
Lamby's Blog “Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?” (http://chris-lamb.co.uk/2008/01/24/can-you-get-cp-to-give-a-progress-bar-like-wget/)

Hi,

I found this:
https://www.unix.com/unix-advanced-expert-users/27318-how-see-function-shell.html
which indicates I can use typeset -f to list the functions.
But it also lists the contents...

ya know.. I think i was merely missing parens around the variable
written into the Makefile. D'oh!

My specific goal: automatically edit a Makefile variable's (EXTRAVERSION)
value in a kernel Makefile.


So, I have a shell script that takes one parameter, a version string:

buildkernel.sh...

You are eff'n brilliant! Thank you.

So, if I were to extend what I believe you are saying...

If, for example, I was developing a new root file system for deployment as a new distribution, I...

Is it possible that the cp is failing because of the "-E{force}" portion
of the command line? That switch E should be investigated.

Hi!

I appreciate the feedback that I was vague.
Thank you (very much) for your time. :)

Here's my input and output for the two cases described in my
original post:

Case A)
---------
$...

Hello,

As recommended by the moderators I will start my questions here...

I am a little confused by my Linux (CentOS/RHEL) distribution's sudo
mechanism. Or perhaps I just do not know how to...