On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31 May 2011 04:19, Xn Nooby <xno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello. I wrote a script to install FreeBSD 8.2 on to a real machine, >> or a 64-bit Virtualbox VM. It has a modular approach where you can >> pick which functions will be run on a different target system. It can >> be tweaked easily. I wrote it so that I could do a quick "plain >> vanilla install", and then run this script to set up my user, SVN >> server, gnome, firefox4, flash, nvidia driver, vbox additons, and >> other things. I thought I would post it in case other beginners need >> some thing like this to help them configure a machine. I started off >> with detailed notes, then thought I might as well script it. When you >> run it, the only user interaction is having to enter the user password >> twice. Let me know if anyone has any suggestions. > > How about using $1 instead of theuser? > > You could always have ${1:-theuser} instead to have a default of > theuser, but take the value for username as the first argument. > > Chris >
That's a good idea. The user was originally called "me", but I wanted something that could be searched and replaced without breaking "gnome" and "home". Using a parameter would be even better, thanks!. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"