[vox-tech] newbie annoyed with tin

[Samuel Merritt]

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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:
> >=20
> > #!bin/bash

In addition to Bill's remarks below, this line needs to be=20
#!/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=3D"login:password" > /dev/null
> >=20
> > That's what's in my first attempt at a shell script.  Did I make a boo-=
boo
> > somewhere?
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> Oops - Yes, indeed.  The ";"s tell the shell that the next thing is anoth=
er
> command.  Kind of like:
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>   clear ; ls
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> ... will first clear your terminal screen, and then show you a directory
> listing...
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>=20
> 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)'.
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> e.g., a "\" at the end of a line pretty much nullifies the RETURN-carriage
> ("end of line" character) that comes after it.
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> So you can do something like:
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>   ls \
>   -l
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> and it's the same as:
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>   ls -l
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> :^)
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> <snip>
> > PS - I removed my login stuff, just like you told me to Bill.  I'm a go=
od
> > girl.  I listen. :-)
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> Hehe :)
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> Let us know if that works for you!
>=20
> -bill!
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Samuel Merritt
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