spelling, was: Re: please help with bind 9.1.2

Charles Hallenbeck hallenbeck at valstar.net
Tue May 7 06:21:34 EDT 2002


After this exchange yesterday I simply removed all path
information from the two lines and the script still works fine.


On Tue, 7 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Sun, 5 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Gena,
> >
> > I understand Debian generally deprecates the use of /usr/local,
> > so your suggestions are well made. It is possible that the
> > solution might even be easier ... it is possible that the path to
> > the two utilities nano and ispell might even be omitted
> > altogether. I have not tried that though.
>
> Yes, I believe it can.  The often, in my view, under-estimated command
> substitution can be used here I th9ink.
>
> For example, if I type without the quotes of course:
> "echo -e `which ispell`"
> I get:
> /usr/bin/ispell.
>
> Therefore you could simply use 2 command substitutions to obtain the paths
> for the commands on your system, as the command switches could still be
> used outside the substitution, a simple example is shown below, again omit
> the quotes:
>
> "`which pico` -z test.txt"
>
> Cheers.
>
>

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