Re: set fnord foo

2002-10-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 01), Roman Neuhauser said: yeah, i figured out i made a complete fool of myself after a bit more rtfming and googling (FOLDOC). now if i only knew why oh why is mkinstalldirs written this way. I believe it's a workaround for shells that remove empty `` expressions.

set fnord foo

2002-09-30 Thread Roman Neuhauser
hi there. could anyone tell me what $subject does? i can't find any explanation. man pages for sh(1) (freebsd) and bash(1) (linux) don't mention fnord. what does it do? -- begin 666 nonexistent.vbs FreeBSD 4.7-RC 12:42PM up 12 days, 19:57, 15 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.05, 0.08 end To