i guess nothing. i appreciate the help you've provided, but comments like that are not constructive. perhaps you can explain why the timestamp has nothing to do with overwriting files... obviously i don't know. otherwise, i prefer you just not answer at all. i'm looking for help, not to be talked to condescendingly.
That was a serious question intended to make you think about it, rather than leaving you with a wrong idea that could break one of your scripts.
And as for "explain why the timestamp has nothing to do with overwriting files", there is nothing to explain. Why would you think they do have anything to do with it?
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i have done that, with this format:
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i get the same results: the prog says "O.K. Exiting..."
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
printna
MESSAGES(3) libbash messages Library Manual MESSAGES(3)NAME
messages -- libbash library that implements a set of functions to print standard status messages
SYNOPSIS
printOK [indent]
printFAIL [indent]
printNA [indent]
printATTN [indent]
printWAIT [indent]
DESCRIPTION
General
messages is a collection of functions to print standard status messages - those [ OK ] and [FAIL] messages you see during Linux boot process.
The function list:
printOK Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
Detailed interface description follows.
indent
Column to move to before printing.
Default indent is calculated as TTY_WIDTH-10. If current tty width can not be determined (for example, in case of serial console), it
defaults to 80, so default indent is 80-10=10
FUNCTIONS DESCRIPTIONS
printOK [indent]
Prints a standard [ OK ] message (green)
printFAIL [indent]
Prints a standard [FAIL] message (red)
printNA [indent]
Prints a standard [ N/A] message (yellow)
printATTN [indent]
Prints a standard [ATTN] message (yellow)
printWAIT [indent]
Prints a standard [WAIT] message (yellow)
EXAMPLES
Run a program named MyProg, and report it's success or failure:
echo -n 'Running MyProg...'
printWAIT
if MyProg ; then
printOK
else
printFAIL
fi
AUTHORS
Hai Zaar <haizaar@haizaar.com>
Gil Ran <gil@ran4.net>
SEE ALSO ldbash(1), libbash(1)Linux Epoch Linux