On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:09:05PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:04:25PM -0800, Katie wrote: > > > > #!bin/bash
In addition to Bill's remarks below, this line needs to be #!/bin/bash That is, an absolute path (starts with slash) rather than a relative one. > > echo qy | lynx "https://secureweb.ucdavis.edu:443/cgi-auth/sendback?";; > > "http://email.ucdavis.edu/news/news-succeed.html";; > > -force_secure -accept_all_cookies -auth="login:password" > /dev/null > > > > That's what's in my first attempt at a shell script. Did I make a boo-boo > > somewhere? > > Oops - Yes, indeed. The ";"s tell the shell that the next thing is another > command. Kind of like: > > clear ; ls > > ... will first clear your terminal screen, and then show you a directory > listing... > > > What I think you want are "\" (back-slashes), which tell the shell > 'the stuff on the following line should be considered to be part of this > one single command (or set of commands)'. > > e.g., a "\" at the end of a line pretty much nullifies the RETURN-carriage > ("end of line" character) that comes after it. > > So you can do something like: > > ls \ > -l > > and it's the same as: > > ls -l > > :^) > > > <snip> > > PS - I removed my login stuff, just like you told me to Bill. I'm a good > > girl. I listen. :-) > > Hehe :) > > Let us know if that works for you! > > -bill! > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- Samuel Merritt OpenPGP key is at http://meat.andcheese.org/~spam/spam_at_andcheese_dot_org.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://www.mindspring.com/~aegreene/pgp/
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