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Date:      Wed, 13 Mar 2002 22:13:25 -0500
From:      Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>
To:        "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        "FBSDQ" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Script to hangup ppp?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20020313221105.00c21c08@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOMELHCKAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <20020314144909.B83799@grimoire.chen.org.nz>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:jonc@chen.org.nz]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:49 PM
>To: Joe & Fhe Barbish
>Cc: FBSDQ
>Subject: Re: Script to hangup ppp?
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>On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 08:10:50PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> > No that does not work.
> > It does not like the 'cat /var/run/tun0.pid' part. Gives a message
>argument
> > should be jobs or process id.
>
>Use backticks. ie ` . Not quotes, ie '.


At 22:08 2002/03/13 -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
Thanks to every one who help out on this question.
I found the backtick, it's on the same key with ~.
I tested the script and it work now.

In bash at least (not sure about other shells--these days I seem to only 
use bash) you can use, instead of backticks, $( )
For touch typists, this might be easier--it is for me, simply because one 
types ( ) and $ more often than one does a backtick.

Ah well, that's my bit of trivia for tonight.

Scott Robbins


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