. via Dng said on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:45:09 -0500
>The shell receives a series of tokens, and tries to interpret the >first one as a command. In the double-quoted attempt above, it gets >two tokens before the first pipe | --- > > 1) "cat -n" > > 2) /etc/fstab > >Of course, the system has no command named "cat -n". (And only a >chaotic evil person would use a space in a command's name.) Something >like > "cat" "-n" /etc/fstab > >would work fine, the shell now sees three tokens (and the double >quotes are completely unnecessary here), and the first is recognized >as a command that's on the executable path. > >The same goes for "cat /etc/fstab" or "cat fstab", they're both just >text strings that happen to include a space character. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ dng is correct ! SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
