Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts
Joe Buehler
jbuehler@hekimian.com
Wed Sep 11 09:57:00 GMT 2002
Paul Johnston wrote:
> if [ "$OS" = "Windows_NT" ]
> then
> WINETC=`/bin/cygpath $SYSTEMROOT`/system32/drivers/etc
> FILES="hosts protocol services"
> fi
>
> for FILE in $FILES
> do
> if [ ! -e /etc/$FILE ]
> then
> /bin/ln -s $VERBOSE ${WINETC}/$FILE /etc/$FILE
> fi
> done
Not likely to happen here, but... beware of whitespace in
$SYSTEMROOT / $WINETC.
I generally double-quote variable references as a matter of course
in shell scripts so I don't run into bugs resulting from white
space in the contents.
Joe Buehler
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