One last point: On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:32:02AM -0400, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > # we will use a prepared file 'users' whose contents are a list of users, > one user per line > while read USER
The variable $USER is set for you by the system when you log in, and some things may depend on it (this is a very old Unix feature, and I've forgotten which--most things should no longer do this, for the reason I'm describing now). If you change the value of $USER, any such things may break. Generally the convention is to use upper case names for environment variables (i.e. things you want to have persistence across sessions/processes/etc.), and shell scripts should use lower case names for their variables to avoid unintended conflicts like this. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
_______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
