Bad : modifier in $ (/).

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 21 07:41:52 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:53 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On 4/21/06, Levin Fritz <levinfritz at mediales.net> wrote:
> > > When I do the below I get
> > >
> > > []$ export  PATH=$PATH:/u/ponnuramw/aol/sns/build/WEB-INF/
> > > Bad : modifier in $ (/).
> > > []$
> >
> > What's the value of $PATH before you enter this command? Maybe there's
> > something funny in there already.
> >
> > Also, which shell is this? (You can find out with "echo $SHELL")
> >
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> 
> Hi Levin
> 
> []$ echo $PATH
> /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin
> []$ echo $SHELL
> /bin/tcsh

That would explain it. The C Shell has very different syntax. Why are
you using it?

The C Shell equivalent is:

$ setenv PATH $PATH:/u/ponnuramw/aol/sns/build/WEB-INF

Paul.




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