Is this on z/OS? What version? Lizette
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Peter > Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 8:09 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Symlinks with $SYSNAME variable > > Hi, > > I issued > > ln --s /\$SYSNAME/etc /MaintP21/etc From /Maintp21 but it gave me a > different result > > etc == > \$SYSNAMEetc > > so i was expecting > > etc === > $SYSNAME/etc > > Could you please point with the correct syntax. > > On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > > > > > > > > >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 > > -- > > Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
