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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash variable and cp commands (Solaris 10) Post 302945433 by sea on Friday 29th of May 2015 10:13:51 AM
Old 05-29-2015
Hello purct and welcome to the forum.
Please use CODE tags (that icon with the text 'code' on it), for each of the code segments, which you agreed upon joining the forum.

Other than that, you are trying (not limited to this example) to overwrite $PKGDIR with the script uninstall$VERSION.sh by 'forcing' it using -f.
The -f toggle usualy is used to overwrite without asking if the target file is already existing, however, since the target you passed is a directory, it will fail.

On the terminal you probably 'missed' to type the -f.

Hope this helps
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NAME

       installer - Solaris Web Start installer utility

SYNOPSIS

       installer [-locales list] [-nodisplay] [-noconsole] [-debug]

DESCRIPTION

       The  installer utility invokes a Web Start install wizard sequence which will lead the user through a sequence of installation panels. This
       installer utility is found on many CDs that are shipped with Solaris and it will be found among the top level files of these CDs.

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OPTIONS

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