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Re: Beginnings of a patch: /etc/hosts

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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