jimx@ihlpy.att.com (James F Bond-Harris) (09/07/89)
I am trying to write a shell script to allow me to send a file from my Sun 3/60 up to a remote machine for printing. I have been using tip as my terminal emulator, having no other at the time. What I am trying to do is: #! /bin/sh if [ $# -ne 1 ] then echo "usage: rpr filename" exit fi ~p $1 %HOME/tmp (printing command) $1 rm $HOME/tmp/$1 The problem is that the ~p escape is interpretted by sh, and it complains that it cannot find anything like ~p. The manual page doesn't seem to say anything about using the escapes in a shell script, only that tip looks for them at the start of new lines. Is there any way to have the escapes work inside the script, or am I stuck with doing things manually? Or is there some other way that I (obviously:) haven't heard of? Thanks in advance, Jim Bond-Harris ihlpy!jimx