Unix Shell - Re: what's wrong with this script

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Re: what's wrong with this script

prabhat143@gmail.com

2005-03-28, 6:18 pm

Hi Ed,

Thanks a bunch. At least I knew it was something trivial. :-) What do
you mean when you say always quote a variable? Do you mean

filesToArchive=$HOME/tutoring/newInherit

should be

filesToArchive="$HOME/tutoring/newInherit"

Regards,
Prabhat

Ed Morton wrote:
> prabhat143@gmail.com wrote:
>
which[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> Missing white-space:
>
> if[ ...
>
> should be:
>
> if [ ...
>
> You should also always quote variables, unless you KNOW a good reason

> not to.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed.