why is this script failing?

[David Kelly]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:56:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> 	But as you point out, the followingisthat much more effective.
> 	or at least lesss typing.
> 
> > 
> > But why do it the hard way?
> > 
> > #!/bin/sh
> > /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*wav > /dev/null 2>&1
> 
> 	with this,
> > 
> > /bin/rm /tmp/kde-kline/*log > /dev/null 2>&1

The other advantage of the simple version above is that it handles
spaces in the file name. The others need a bit more care to make sure
spaces are quoted else they will separate arguments in the shell
interpreter.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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