bash question

[Jerry Feldman]

On 01/03/2009 01:24 PM, dan moylan wrote:
> running ubuntu 8.10.
> in my .profile file i had the following line:
>   hst=3D${HST:0:3}
> i was cited for a login error because of it, and couldn't
> log in until i changed the line to:
>   hst=3D`echo $HST | cut -c1-3`
> does anyone know why the first construction causes a
> problem?  once i'm logged in, both constructions work fine.
>  =20
As mentioned before, this could be a strict Bourne vs. BASH construct.=20
How do you log in. Do you get the error from the GUI when you do a GUI=20
login, or from logging in on a virtual terminal.

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