[PLUG] Need Explanation of BASH Script Error

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sat Feb 18 17:48:42 UTC 2012


On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Rogan Creswick wrote:

> Because, unfortunately, when curl returns nothing (as it dose on error
> with -s) then $NEWIP is also set to nothing, which (due to the way bash
> behaves -- badly, IMHO) causes that left hand argument to *go away*.  eg:

Rogan,

   OK. Now I understand.

Thanks, everyone,

Rich




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