On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 01:38:41PM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
| 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.
Design choice, I guess. I thought you wanted to log the names.
| Thank you for the second explanation, though.
You're welcome.
| 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?
|
| :)
-D
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