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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] ksh script - can't figure out what's wrong Post 302734779 by sudon't on Thursday 22nd of November 2012 07:02:22 PM
Old 11-22-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
One of these is not like the others.

One of these just doesn't belong.



Do not type up your scripts in Microsoft Word, it will convert your ordinary quotes into "smart quotes" which aren't quotes at all as far as the shell's concerned.
Actually, I was using vim, but after I got the error the first time, I opened it in TextWrangler, and added the missing quotes. I see now that I had the prefs set to use "typographers quotes". But I guess my eyesight wasn't good enough to notice.
Ok, I changed prefs and replaced the curly quotes, and it works as expected. That was it, thanks!

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times(1)							   User Commands							  times(1)

NAME
times - shell built-in function to report time usages of the current shell SYNOPSIS
sh times ksh times DESCRIPTION
sh Print the accumulated user and system times for processes run from the shell. ksh Print the accumulated user and system times for the shell and for processes run from the shell. On this man page, ksh(1) commands that are preceded by one or two * (asterisks) are treated specially in the following ways: 1. Variable assignment lists preceding the command remain in effect when the command completes. 2. I/O redirections are processed after variable assignments. 3. Errors cause a script that contains them to abort. 4. Words, following a command preceded by ** that are in the format of a variable assignment, are expanded with the same rules as a vari- able assignment. This means that tilde substitution is performed after the = sign and word splitting and file name generation are not performed. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ksh(1), sh(1), time(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 times(1)
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