On Sun, Sep 12, 1999, Chris Costello wrote:
> > However, if do a 'cd \$DEST_DIR' I end up in the root directory. If I do a
> > 'rm $DEST_DIR/', I get 'rm: /: is a directory'. If it can't be a hard link I
> > have no idea what it is.
>
> That's because $DEST_DIR is expanding to "/".
Oops! No it's not. It's expanding to nothing because it's
unset. See my second paragraph (sentence):
> Try unsetting that variable and then enclosing it in single
> quotes in your rm command.
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