[ExtractStream] .profile/$PATH problems

[Josh Harding]

--- sharkey@a... wrote:
[snip]
> > I have this in my .profile:
> > 
> > export PATH=/tivo-bin/:$PATH":"/hack/bin/
> 
> That's a most unusual use of quotation marks you've got there. Why
> are you quoting the second :?

IIRC, quoting is one of the ways to prevent the shell from interpreting
the : as a modifier introducer for the variable (e.g. $PATH:1 being
word one of $PATH).


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--The Amigo

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