script issue

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Sat Jan 8 10:55:01 UTC 2005


On Friday 07 January 2005 20:39, Kam Leo wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:43:38 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley at pinteq.co.za> 
wrote:
> > On Friday 07 January 2005 19:06, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > > Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > > > hi guys
> > > >
> > > > if a line is too long in a sh script
> > > > I need to break it in to two lines,
> > > > there is a method that tells the shell that the two line are to read
> > > > as one,
> > > >
> > > > how do you do that?
> > >
> > > echo This is a \
> > >       long line.
> > >
> > > Note: the backslash must be the last character of the line, no spaces
> > > or anything else after it.
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> > Thanks Paul
> > You are working rather hard today for me anyway?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Chadley Wilson
> > Redhat Certified Technician
> > Cert Number: 603004708291270
>
> Why are you using this list for basic bash questions? Didn't your
> Redhat certification course cover this subject? By the way, you can
> just as easily use Google to find the answer.  I gave you a reference
> to a bash scripting tutorial yesterday.  If you did not like that one
> there are others available.  First, do some research on your own,
> then, come to the list when you cannot find an answer.

Look I know I should be reading this stuff up, but I am really pressed for 
time, as you know you could read 500 pages before finding what you need, that 
takes time which I don't have. So I apologise if my questions are stupid. But 
really I was hoping for better solutions than those I already know.

Besides if you can show why when I script the install of two rpms on one line 
the script ignores the second even if I use the \

in fact it reads the name of the second rpm as a command and returns command 
not found error

So I am not arguing the fact that I appear to be lazy these last few days. but 
if you check the archives you will see that I hardly ever post. the time that 
I ever use the list for my benefit is when I actually don't have a lot of 
time to find out.

Once again my apologies.



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Chadley Wilson
Redhat Certified Technician 
Cert Number: 603004708291270
Pinnacle Micro
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