>
> I've just run your script and it worked with both forms. I
> would suspect
> something is wrong with your command (may be you have tab instead of
> space ? within the 2 basename ?). Run diff on the scripts and
> check it.
No, i have definitly no tabs in my script!
>
> Earnie, Your com
Ehud Karni wrote:
>
> Earnie, Your comment on the "file" variable name is good programming
> hint in general, but it sure is not the problem here.
>
Sorry, I did mean to imply that that was the problem. It was merely a
suggestion of style. Thanks for the clarification.
Earnie.
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 09:31:22 -0500, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > i have written the following function:
> >
> > function check-el-compile ()
> > {
> > for file in $*; do
> > elcfile=`basename $file .el`.elc
> >
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But if i write the functon like follows:
>
> function check-el-compile ()
> {
> for file in `ls *.el`; do
> # same as above.
>
> then the basename call doesn´t work, i.e. it always returns $file.
> It seems that the output
No, i don´t have any special characters in the filenames.
And renaming $file in $F doesn´t help too.
Hmm, very mysterious!
Thanks,
Klaus
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > i have written the following function:
> >
> > function check-el-compile ()
> > {
> > for file in $*;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> i have written the following function:
>
> function check-el-compile ()
> {
> for file in $*; do
> elcfile=`basename $file .el`.elc
> if [ ! -f "$elcfile" ]; then
> missinglist="$missinglist $file"
>
i have written the following function:
function check-el-compile ()
{
for file in $*; do
elcfile=`basename $file .el`.elc
if [ ! -f "$elcfile" ]; then
missinglist="$missinglist $file"
fi
done
echo "Not compiled Fi
