Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-30 Thread Andy Goth
So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public Domain Korn SHell). It appears that the maillist switched the order of my two posts. Yes, the demonic mailer daemon strikes again... Yes, Korn Shell. In my experience pdksh is not a good substitute for ksh (although my

[newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Richard Myers
-- Shells, Redirection -- The shell provides the Command Line Interface that you see in Linux/UNIX. The shell accepts your input, processes it, and takes appropriate actions, interfacing with the kernel and the filesystem as necessary. The BASH shell was based

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Andy Goth
When you encounter an error detected by the shell, it is normally flagged by the shell. In this example, the shell is Korn Shell, and the shell designation is "ksh": $ thisfile -ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied] So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of those will run a script, but there's a

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Dan Brown
From: Dan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Andy Goth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternately, you can call a shell and tell it to run the shell script file. "sh printpwd" should do the trick... is this right? In most shells, ". printpwd" (notice the period) will run a shell script as Both of

Re: [newbie] UNIX INTRO: Shells, redirection

1999-07-29 Thread Richard Myers
$ thisfile -ksh: thisfile: cannot execute [Permission denied] On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: So I was right. I was expecting pdksh, though (the Public Domain Korn SHell). It appears that the maillist switched the order of my two posts. Yes, Korn Shell. In my experience pdksh is