From: Rod.. Whitworth (listenwitworx.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2005 - 18:50:31 CST

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On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:15:42 -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote:

>SKIPDIR="games gnu/usr.sbin/sendmaill usr.sbin/httpd"
>
>...so while this is the SAME post I found, the author claims it does not
>work. I claim this too.
>But there are no follow up's to his post, so this is why I asked the list.
>
>I certainly know how to read the archives...however,
>
>I tried this, but not in 'quotes'. I think if this is the way its supposed
>to be, it should be stated clearly in the man page ?
>
>Does it REQUIRE quotes?
>
>all I am am after here is to be able to build world and not overwrite some
>binaries.

You are, according to the quoted example, setting variable by passing a
string to it. The string has a space in it.
Therefore it is 2 strings.

If you were a student you would have been asked to try:

$ MYTRY= ones_string another_string
and you would have seen:

sh: another_string: not found
$
then do:
$ echo $MYTRY

$

Then do the thing again with quotes...........

Funny how it works, eh?
Maybe that's the problem and the man pages assume that you know a bit
about environment variables and how they are set.
I don't think we need extra verbosity expressing simple concepts on
every manpage or they could be renamed how-to-pages 8-)

From the land "down under": Australia.
Do we look <umop apisdn> from up over?

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