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. > > -- Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (22% of Full)
