Bill Gradwohl <b...@ycc.com> writes: > Running it recently produced : > bash: command substitution: line 2201: syntax error near unexpected > token `(' > bash: command substitution: line 2201: `rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty > "/snapshot/Music/Etta James/The Essential Etta James/The Essential Etta > James (Disc 2)"' > > I'm trying to understand why command substitution is happening at all, > since the opening paren isn't preceded by a dollar sign.
The paren is a red herring, you need to get rid of the backquote. (Use find instead of tree.) Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."