From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 16 13:09:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23369 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23283 for ; Mon, 16 Mar 1998 13:08:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07289; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:09:29 +1200 (NZST) Received: from localhost (jonc@localhost) by tui.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA12537; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:08:59 +1200 (NZST) X-Authentication-Warning: tui.pinnacle.co.nz: jonc owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 09:08:54 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Christopher Raven cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Link to Ports CDROM In-Reply-To: <01bd510c$4b127480$0300a8c0@admin.cian.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Christopher Raven wrote: [snip] > I get as far as > > for i in *; do (RETURN) > > and the console returns the error:- > > for: Command not found > do: Command not found > > I have obviously set about this incorrectly but don't know why. You're using the wrong shell. The command sequence you're using requires the Bourne shell. Invoke `sh' before typing in your sequence. -- Jonathan Chen | "In prosperity our friends know us; | in adversity we know our friends." | - John Churton Collins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message