Shell says... is not an identifier (was TIMEZONE).

Tony Olekshy tony at oha.UUCP
Sat Oct 13 07:56:16 AEST 1990


In message <1990Oct9.001704.18149 at hades.ausonics.oz.au>,
greyham at hades.ausonics.oz.au (Greyham Stoney) writes:
>
> the shell bombs out during startup with the error message:
> 
> 70/2:00:00,280/2:00:00: is not an identifier

The shell says this when you say, for example:

		x="a-b";
		$x="c-d";	# instead of x="c-d"

because the second line is converted into "a-b"="c-d" and "a-d" is not
an identifier.  Look closely at all places where TZ may have been wrongly
entered as $TZ on the left of =.

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