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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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