>This is what I have been doing for a number of years instead: > >in /etc/profile I have this: > ># set up "global" ENV script >export ENV=/etc/@ENV
I've been doing the same but from my .profile. Working in Switzerland, my emulator is has long been setup to run with CP IBM-500, which has some essential characters mapped to different code points. So I learnt some 20 years ago that using square bracket [] and curly braces {} in shell scripts is not a good idea. Therefore, I'm always using the test command instead of [] in shell scripts. So this: UID=`id -u ` if [ "$UID" = "0" ] then... becomes this: if test $(id -u) = 0 then... And there are other characters like the pipe symbol which can cause troubles. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN