Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!ism780b!jim From: jim@ism780b.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: /bin/sh feature? - (nf) Message-ID: <7@ism780b.UUCP> Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 18:53:44 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780b.7 Posted: Fri Jul 13 18:53:44 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Jul-84 02:23:43 EDT Lines: 13 #R:uvm-cs:-27400:ism780b:28500002:000:420 ism780b!jim Jul 9 10:26:00 1984 > : Daily uucp script > : assumes you have subdirectories. > : modified to save another day's LOGFILE > SPOOL=/usr/spool/uucp > mv $SPOOL/LOGFILE.old $SPOOL/LOGFILE.older > mv $SPOOL/LOGFILE $SPOOL/LOGFILE.old Since ":" is *not* a comment character (rather, it is a command which does nothing), that "'" starts a quoted string which is terminated by EOF. Use "#" for comments.