Bash trick of the day

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (Dan Ritter)]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 07:23:58AM -0700, Eric C wrote:
> "No. Why would you expect it to exit in 120 seconds?
> -dsr-"
> 
> Because
> WAIT_SECONDS=$(($WAIT_MINUTES * 60))

Now you see why selective quoting is important. You showed us a
single command line and asked why it didn't do something that
it shouldn't do...

-dsr-


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