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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple assigning variable question Post 302327131 by TonyFullerMalv on Friday 19th of June 2009 06:43:19 PM
Old 06-19-2009
Code:
newvar = "$a"

should not have spaces on either side of the = sign.
 

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KROSS(1)							 KDE User's Manual							  KROSS(1)

NAME
kross - KDE application to run kross scripts. SYNOPSIS
kross [--help] [Generic-options] [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [file ...] DESCRIPTION
kross executes kross scripts written in KDE Javascript, Python, Ruby, Java and Falcon. GENERIC OPTIONS
--author Show author information. --help Show help about options. --help-all Show all options. --help-kde Show KDE specific options. --help-qt Show Qt specific options. --license Show license information. -v--version Show version information APPLICATION OPTIONS
file... The files with the scripts to run. USAGE
kross file runs the script in file after loading the interpreter plugin for the script language (detected by filename suffix). To interpret other languages than KDE Javascript, kdebindings must be installed. SEE ALSO
kdeoptions(7), qtoptions(7), python(1), ruby(1), kjs(1), java(1), falcon(1) Look at http://kross.dipe.org/solution.html for more information and tutorials. BUGS
There are probably tons of bugs. Use bugs.kde.org: http://bugs.kde.org to report them. AUTHOR
Sebastian Sauer <mail@dipe.org>. 2008-10-22 KROSS(1)
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