On 26 February 2010 17:13, <andreas.b...@sf.tv> wrote:
> Thanks for your suggestion,
>
> but infact it does not change anything here renaming the modules itself - I
> just renamed the module to more usual name without the colon
> but as before it works but still throws the syntax error.
>
> I finally just got rid of the syntax error by writing the variable $(host)
> like ${host} - using curly braces it works without throwing errors
>
> Using curly braces for the variable I can write it using a colon, with or
> without quotes - It always works without errors.
>
>
Always using curly braces is probably a best practice anyway, then variables
are handled the same way in bash, perl and cfengine - three environments I
as a sysadmin use daily. Writing $(somevarname) always makes me expect
something to execute, this is the bash equivalent to sh backtics.
- Erlend
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