On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:26:42 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Friday 07 January 2005 20:39, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 19:43:38 +0200, Chadley Wilson <chadley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Friday 07 January 2005 19:06, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > > > hi guys > > > > > > > > > > if a line is too long in a sh script > > > > > I need to break it in to two lines, > > > > > there is a method that tells the shell that the two line are to read > > > > > as one, > > > > > > > > > > how do you do that? > > > > > > > > echo This is a \ > > > > long line. > > > > > > > > Note: the backslash must be the last character of the line, no spaces > > > > or anything else after it. > > > > > > > > Paul. > > > > > > Thanks Paul > > > You are working rather hard today for me anyway? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Chadley Wilson > > > Redhat Certified Technician > > > Cert Number: 603004708291270 > > > > Why are you using this list for basic bash questions? Didn't your > > Redhat certification course cover this subject? By the way, you can > > just as easily use Google to find the answer. I gave you a reference > > to a bash scripting tutorial yesterday. If you did not like that one > > there are others available. First, do some research on your own, > > then, come to the list when you cannot find an answer. > > Look I know I should be reading this stuff up, but I am really pressed for > time, as you know you could read 500 pages before finding what you need, that > takes time which I don't have. So I apologise if my questions are stupid. But > really I was hoping for better solutions than those I already know. > > Besides if you can show why when I script the install of two rpms on one line > the script ignores the second even if I use the \ > > in fact it reads the name of the second rpm as a command and returns command > not found error > > So I am not arguing the fact that I appear to be lazy these last few days. but > if you check the archives you will see that I hardly ever post. the time that > I ever use the list for my benefit is when I actually don't have a lot of > time to find out. > > Once again my apologies. > > > > -- > Chadley Wilson > Redhat Certified Technician > Cert Number: 60300470 If you want to run two rpms on the same line do rpm-one; rpm-two or in the case of extending the line rpm-one;\ rpm-two Note the ;. This separates on statement from the next. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097
