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On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:05 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > > > So what is the point of the '$'? > > In Bash (and Posix shell maybe?) it denotes a string that requires > translation. > > man bash > Ah, well done. I did look in the man page but didn't see the translation bit. Thanks. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html