Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:23:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: set fnord foo Message-ID: <20021001142330.GE7147@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20021001054900.GX30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> References: <20020930104434.GM30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> <20020930202647.GA7147@dan.emsphone.com> <20021001054900.GX30361@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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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
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