From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 7:23:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E93C137B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:23:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43B8343E65 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 07:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) id g91ENUHk052948 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:23:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:23:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: set fnord foo Message-ID: <20021001142330.GE7147@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020930104434.GM30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020930202647.GA7147@dan.emsphone.com> <20021001054900.GX30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021001054900.GX30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 01), Roman Neuhauser said: > yeah, i figured out i made a complete fool of myself after a bit more > rtfming and googling (FOLDOC). now if i only knew why oh why is > mkinstalldirs written this way. I believe it's a workaround for shells that remove empty `` expressions. Fnord guarantees that the set command sees at least one argument. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message