[ExtractStream] .profile/$PATH problems AND ExtractStream prefernces

[Richard Todd]

Well, I got the problem solved, but by using a work-around...

BTW, that "unusual" path came from the zipped up extract stream...go
figure.

Now that I'm past that stage, what does everyone like for encoding? I
have access to a slow linux box, and several windows boxen, and want to
get 2 hours of TV onto a CD in DivX format, with MP3 sound...

I figure this is a more "ExtractStream" discussion than many we've had
on this email list.

I don't know how World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones...
-Albert Einstein


-----Original Message-----
From: sharkey@a...
[mailto:sharkey@a...] 
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:26 PM
To: ExtractStream@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ExtractStream] .profile/$PATH problems 

> --- 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).

I thought curly braces were required for the use of : modifiers in bash.
(e.g. $PATH:1 is $PATH:1, but ${PATH:1} is the last letter of PATH.)

Things are different in csh, but, this isn't csh.

Eric

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