On Wednesday 15 June 2011 17:25:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:07:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'd like to use this but I don't have shopt. Which package is it in? If > > I ask Google I get a list of places to buy T-shirts. > > It's a Bash built-in.
Hmm. It seems that the command from the Wiki can't be run as an ordinary user via sudo; that's what was causing the errors that made me think shopt was not on the system - I got "syntax error near unexpected token `shopt' " Thanks. -- Rgds Peter