Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:22:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb > $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" > $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/Addr

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 01:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am writing some shell scripts, but I run into some problems. > I have a dir name which has space in it. I know this is bad but I can't > avoid it. I am forced to deal with this situation. How do I set a > variable

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread Nathan Poznick
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb > $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" > $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb' You're setting the shell variables incorrectly. PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread Kenton Brede
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:22:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am writing some shell scripts, but I run into some problems. > I have a dir name which has space in it. I know this is bad but I can't > avoid it. I am forced to deal with this situation. How do I set

Re: is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everyone, > > $PDB=~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb > $PDB="~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb" > $PDB='~/.kde/share/apps/kpilot/DBBackup/Cool Joe/AddressDB.pdb' > > ls $PDB > > give me error. is there

is it correct to specific a path name like this

2003-06-12 Thread try_email_me
Hi everyone, I am writing some shell scripts, but I run into some problems. I have a dir name which has space in it. I know this is bad but I can't avoid it. I am forced to deal with this situation. How do I set a variable that contain the dir name which has space in it. I tried severa