>When I run ln -s command but it is not taking $SYSNAME but it is taking
SYSTEM/etc
The $ is a meta character to the shell; it asks the shell to replace the
variable following the $ with the valur of the variable. If you want to keep
the $ as $, you need to escape it by preceeding it with he backslash.
ls -s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc
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Peter Hunkeler
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