Re: Bash commands

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:18:05AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I downloaded the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide the other day an have 
> started to work my way through it.  I'm fairly new to bash so I get more 
> than a little confused when the output I get is nothing similar to what 
> the ABS Guide says it should be. 
> 
> Here is what has me confused at the moment.
> 
> b=${a/23/BB}
> 
> echo "b = $b"
> 
> Now the ABS guide says that where I'm setting b it should be 
> substituting BB for 23.  It also says that the output of 'echo "b - $b"' 
> should be: b = BB35
>
> However, what I get as output is as follows:
> 
> ffreeloader@Job:~$ echo "b = $b"
> b = total 520716
> drwxr-sr-x  2 ffreeloader ftp        48 2005-10-13 07:50 script
> -rw-r--r--  1 ffreeloader ftp 532692172 2005-10-12 09:38 server_2003.zip
> 
You haven't aliased the echo command, have you?  Try these commands:
type echo
declare -a
declare -f


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