RE: Pine and sendmail (further news)

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> > The shell won't make a blind bit of difference. If you can't 'ls -la
> > /' then your system is buggered, I'm afraid :) Are you sure you typed
> > it in correctly??
> 
> This format for commands only works in C shell on my own box.  Does 
> not work with bash.  The $ thingy is not accepted by my bash shell.  
> Never was, never will :-)  

The $? I thought that was supposed to represent the prompt, not an actual
command ;)) Anyway, I'm running bash, and 'ls -la *whatever*' works for
me!! Try it again, without the '$'!

Cheers,

Alex.


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