Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] question about redirection

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

On Wed, 2004-02-11 at 18:56, William Shotts wrote:
> I see your problem.  See my comment below...
[...]
> > $LOGFILE="/data/logs/evolution.log"
> 
> This is wrong.
> It should be:
> 
> LOGFILE="/data/logs/evolution.log"
> 
> No leading "$".  $ tells bash to perform a substition.  It does not
> indicate a variable type as it would in say VisualBasic.

Thanks that did it indeed, I also changed:
echo "" >> $LOGFILE
echo "--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE
to:
echo "\n--- $(date +"%R %A, %B %-d, %Y") ---" >> $LOGFILE

Just to clean things up.

Regards

Bram
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