On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Stef Hoesli Wiederwald wrote: > > case $- in > > *i*) # interactive shell only > > echo "\n" > > fortune -a > > echo "" > > ;; > > esac > > Hm, this gives me an > Illegal variable name. > error...
What about /etc/profile or whichever file is used by your shell as the system-wide profile file? Try to find lines with an odd number of single or double quotes. Remco
