On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 09:37:11AM -0600, dman wrote:
> | echo $(girl_name) > /etc/dumpdates
>
> Two problems here (I think) :
> '>' will overwrite the existing file, use '>>' instead
> $(...) executes the command '...' in a subshell; don't you mean
> ${...}?
(:--- A cynical note follows but don't take it too seriously ---:)
The former is not really a problem; suppose you have only one date
at a time, then it's right to put only that one name into dumpdates,
since this time you're dumping her and tomorrow you might dump
someone else, right? There's no use in dumping somebody you've
already dumped before, what are the odds of dating her again,
anyway? So we need only one name at a time in the file.
Thank you for the second explanation, though. The braces are of
course completely useless -- it's supposed to be a variable: today's
date. Once I've written a script that dumped the next name in a
database each time it was run. But then you wouldn't be in control
of who you're dumping, right?
:)
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echo ${girl_name} > /etc/dumpdates
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