[gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting help requested. Quoting?

2006-03-21 Thread Stroller
In the course of my job as a computer-fixer I am often asked to back up files from PCs on which Windows has crashed. In order to ensure that I get every file on the system (both c:\dave and "c:\Documents and Settings\Dave\Local Settings\Application Data \obscure\path\to\important\set\of\mail

Re: [gentoo-user] send mail to gentoo-user locally

2006-03-21 Thread Stroller
On 20 Mar 2006, at 22:46, Mingfeng Yang wrote:... Now my problem is: the mailsent out by postfix (sendmail) is always get rejected by the mailinglists, though I set "my_hdr From: mfyang < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>" in muttrc.I'm not familiar with Mutt, but it looks like've got a space between the < and th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version

2006-03-21 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 02:42, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > But the times, that gentoo was pretty actual in the stable tree are > > over. > > You do realize the above sentence makes no freakin' sense, right? > nope. If I had realized that, I would have not written it. Gentoo was once V

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash scripting help requested. Quoting?

2006-03-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 06:47 +, Stroller wrote: > I'm afraid quoting really is my Achilles' proverbial in Bash I don't think you're alone there :) how about: #!/bin/bash UNNEEDED_FILES=(pagefile.sys temp 'Temporary Internet Files') for (( i=0 ; $i < ${#UNNEEDED_FILES[*]} ; i++ )) ; do echo

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