Hi, I issued
ln --s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc From /Maintp21 but it gave me a different result etc == > \$SYSNAMEetc so i was expecting etc === > $SYSNAME/etc Could you please point with the correct syntax. On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >When I run ln -s command but it is not taking $SYSNAME but it is taking > SYSTEM/etc > > > > The $ is a meta character to the shell; it asks the shell to replace the > variable following the $ with the valur of the variable. If you want to > keep the $ as $, you need to escape it by preceeding it with he backslash. > > > ls -s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc > -- > Peter Hunkeler > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
