[Wylug-help] smb mount help please

David Whiteley D.L.Whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk
Mon Feb 20 11:25:50 GMT 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:19 +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, David Whiteley wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:25 +0000, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> >> Is there a typo "\" after staff7??
> >>
> >
> > I presume that this is necessary to excape the "$" which would otherwise
> > be indicating a variable value.
> 
> But you're within single quotes so:
> 
> [prefect at foo ~]$ echo '\$PATH'
> \$PATH
> 
> jh
> 

Woops,

However, it still fails in the same way without the backslash.

I presume the same logic applies to escaping the other slashes.

Dave
 



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