I'm currently learning Bash scripting from a book and the following example is given, but I think there is a typo in the variable assignment for the variable file.
Am I missing something here?
Last edited by fpmurphy; 05-05-2012 at 11:04 AM..
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No quotes are needed in this case: file=states would suffice, but they won't hurt if they are the right double quotes, which is not the case here “” vs. ""
You are using are the wrong kind of double quotes. Either you copied it from somewhere instead of typing it at the keyboard, or typed it in Microsoft Word or something.
Hello,
May be my post may look naive to many...but it isn't if you were to believe me.After, trying to learn programming in C for at least 5 years , I concluded that K & R is the best book to learn C, alas I took a lot of time to realize this.
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Hello, I'm new to this forum, and I apologize in advance if I did something wrong here.
I am pretty stumped here as I am still getting the error message, "./comc1.sh: test: argument expected." after executing the script itself.
Here's the script file I modified:
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Hi
Sorry to post a bit of an "I'm an idiot" post, but I did a typing error and typed "ls 'l" instead of "ls -l". This seems to have made me enter some sort of mode or other that I can't seem to be able to get out of. The new line prompt is > (if that helps).
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Hi everybody
I a new one
And I have just wanted to research on Sun Solaris
So can you help me what e-book to read ( and if can you give me the
direct address to load )
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