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Name: mpt_dennis
Date: February 19, 2009 at 18:59:10 Pacific
OS: CentOS release 4.6
Subcategory: General
Comment:

I was looking at the system scripts under /etc/init.d. I noticed that
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echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload|status}"
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why the $ before the string?



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Name: jefro
Date: February 20, 2009 at 14:25:17 Pacific
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My guess it is a variable.

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Response Number 2
Name: GuyA
Date: February 21, 2009 at 16:52:23 Pacific
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$"zzz" translates zzz to the character set of the current locale.

$'zzz' is scanned for ANSI C escape characters.

Guy


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Response Number 3
Name: mpt_dennis
Date: February 22, 2009 at 18:10:33 Pacific
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So to clarify, the $ is there to make sure the string following it is displayed properly according to the locale set, right?

Thanks.


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