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. -- |Chris Costello <ch...@calldei.com> |A low level language is one whose programs |require attention to the irrelevant. `------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
