On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:09:16PM +0100, yahya John Lorenzen wrote:
> [root@dhcppc0 root]# md5sum <FC3-i386-disc1.iso>
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
The shell (not the terminal, by the way -- the terminal is the screen you're
looking at, and the shell is the command prompt program running on it)
doesn't like the "<" and ">" characters you've used. Those characters have
special meaning to the shell (redirection), so you can't just enclose a
filename in them.
Even though in Danish you use ÂÂ and ââ for quoting, the shell is going to
always want the " or ' characters. You could say
md5sum 'FC3-i386-disc1.iso'
but since there's no spaces or special characters in that filename, you
don't need to.
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Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
