Ok, I can't script my way out of a papper bag, so I need help with this.<P>I declare some variables at the prompt:<P>export catname=Fluffy<BR>export dogname=Spot<P>I ...
Hi there,<br><br>I have seeing some shell script examples that use (use, not declare!) variables like this:<br><br><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">${VAR_1}</pre> <br ...
Last month, we took a strange turn and actually just focused on the basics of shell scripting, special variable notation, rather than solving some complex and obscure scripting challenge. I'm going to ...
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