On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:35:36 -0500 (CDT), Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, johnny fulcrum wrote: >> rsh $SMB_MACHINE "/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient \\\\\\\\$IP\\\\$MNT >> $PASSWORD -U $USER_NAME -W $WORKGROUP" > > Egads! Since you're using Samba, why not just use //$IP/$MNT ? It > doesn't have to be escaped. > I was going to stay quiet about it, but that's waaay too many > backslashes. > > Jima > Ha! I wrote this a few years back - I remember having a devil of a time with the slashes (don't remember if I could use forward slashes or not....) then had to escape each one from the shell !! - the above worked and that was that :) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list