Re: Error in online instructions
Re: Error in online instructions
- Subject: Re: Error in online instructions
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:06:02 +0200
Am 16.08.2005 um 20:27 schrieb Justin C. Walker:
On Aug 16, 2005, at 10:34 , Scott Mansfield wrote:
I'm new to darwin build and just ran through the installation
steps. In doing so I encountered something a wee confusing.
At
http://opendarwin.org/projects/darwinbuild/doc/tools/
index.html#install
the line
hdiutil create -size 4g -type UDIF -fs HFSX -volname Builds \
-uid 0 -gid 0 -attach Builds.dmg
[snip]
It's not a bug, nor is it a feature. The backslash is a common
documentation trick when a line is too long and needs a visual
break; It indicates "type all this in."
It's actually more than a documentation trick. It's a common shell
"escape", and means "treat the next line as part of this line when
evaluating the command".
One possible reason why it failed for the original poster is, any
trailing character, even a trailing space makes this machanism fail.
Trailing spaces are quite common if you copy&paste from HTML documents.
heck, yet another $0.02 :-)
Markus
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http://www.jump-ing.de/
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