Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] question about redirection

[Bram M. <bra...@li...>]

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 15:51, William Shotts wrote:
> Yes, by all means you would want to use a variable instead.  It would make
> your script easier to maintain.  I would suggest that in keeping with
> convention, the name of the variable should have an uppercase name since
> it you are treating the variable as a constant.

After editing the script I get the following errors:
m8ram@linux:~> bin/startevo
bin/startevo: line 3: =/data/logs/evolution.log: No such file or directory
bin/startevo: line 4: $LOGFILE: ambiguous redirect
bin/startevo: line 5: $LOGFILE: ambiguous redirect
bin/startevo: line 6: $LOGFILE: ambiguous redirect

This is what the script looks like now:
m8ram@linux:~> cat bin/startevo
#!/bin/bash

$LOGFILE="/data/logs/evolution.log"
echo "" >> $LOGFILE
echo "--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE
evolution >> $LOGFILE 2>&1

The file does exist and is writable:
m8ram@linux:~> ls -lh /data/logs/evolution.log 
-rw-r--r--    1 m8ram    users         50K 2004-02-11 16:58 /data/logs/evolution.log

Why is bash looking for a file called '=/data/logs/evolution.log' ?  The
quotes are correct, aren't they?

TIA
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