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Mr. Muskrat (4572)

Mr. Muskrat
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I'm married with 2 girls. I work as a full time Perl programmer for a Land Mobile Radio company in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

I am enrolled at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online working towards a Bachelor of Science in photography.

My other blog [blogspot.com]

Journal of Mr. Muskrat (4572)

Wednesday September 08, 2004

02:41 PM

bash isn't Perl

[ #20786 ]

Can you find my mistake?

#!/bin/bash today = $(date +%Y-%m-%d) echo $today

It took me a few minutes to realize what I had done.

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bash=perl (Score:1)

by runrig (3385)

s/\s*=\s*//;
I still get caught by that in ksh. My other favorite shell mistake:
$var="value"
- Re:bash=perl (Score:1)
  
  by runrig (3385)
  
  Oops, make that:
  s/\s*=\s*/=/;
  - Re:bash!=perl (Score:1)
    
    by runrig (3385)
    
    And the title was supposed to be bash => perl, but it may as well be the above. I should take more time to review my posts before I post :-)
  - Re:bash=perl (Score:1)
    
    by Mr. Muskrat (4572)
    
    Yep. I often find myself adding whitespace where it doesn't belong. I should be able to spot these mistakes immediately after this many times. :)

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