Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though) that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path that contained a space in it so that is why he used the \ to make the script use the space in the path and not think that it is a second parameter...
UMmmm Note to self and others try not to use spaces in file paths :-) but then again you guys know that ... ________________________________________________________________________ >>> will do what you want without the need to test. >>> (BTW, it's forward slashes / in Linux, not backslahes!) >>> Of course, I may have misunderstood what you are trying to achieve. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Tony. >> >> Thanx I will try the -p option. >> As I understand it the \ is to pipe whatever onto what is infront of >> the \ so it reads Get the Variable and Pipe the following onto it ... > > You were using it as a separator in a path to separate the various > directory names. In Linux/Unix that should be a forward slash (/). > Windows uses the backslash (\) for such purposes. > > As others have pointed out, pipes are something else. > >> You have understood my question... > > Oh good! I was worried I had missed something! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
