[techtalk] BASH programming...

[J Grant Boling]

I took line 8 straight from a HOWTO on Shell Prompt Programming, and modified it slightly so that it left just the tty? part,  it works fine from the command prompt but when I go to login with the new /etc/profile it tells me I'm missing a trailing ' " '  ...  Any help would be greatly appreciated! ~~~ # /etc/profile   # System wide environment and startup programs # Functions and aliases go in /etc/bashrc   PATH="$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin" PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " cur_tty=$(tty | sed -e "s/.dev./(/)/\1\")   ulimit -c 1000000 if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then  umask 002 else  umask 022 fi   USER=`id -un` LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER"   HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname` HISTSIZE=1000 HISTFILESIZE=1000 export PATH PS1 HOSTNAME HISTSIZE HISTFILESIZE USER LOGNAME MAIL cur_tty   for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do  if [ -x $i ]; then   . $i  fi done   unset i ~~~ G