My guess: "Starting process" wants to be an environment variable's name, and it needs to be escaped by double quotes because it contains a space. Conclusion: do not have spaces in environment variable names in any circumstances.
If you say "set" on the command prompt, all of the env variables will be listed (plus more). Say 'set | grep "Starting"', and see if there is such an environment variable (with space in the name). Csaba On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking at a reference script that includes a line: > > echo $"Starting process" > > I understand echo $ENV_VAR and I understand echo "Some String". Why the > $ in front of a string?? > > Howard > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
