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| author | Gabriel Gonzalez <Gabriel439@gmail.com> | 2016-05-18 12:02:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Gabriel Gonzalez <Gabriel439@gmail.com> | 2016-05-18 12:02:48 -0700 |
| commit | 3889415bf8c2f44d8a42824d68e501504b709460 (patch) | |
| tree | 387c672b39889055c75eaa083d2db386a8c4a8d9 | |
| parent | 75d2492f20dc513337de3ef2d45e1d5c68c7dff8 (diff) | |
Fix `??` in Nix warning message
Nix sometimes outputs a warning message like this:
```
directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running ‘?? using sudo
```
... when it really meant to output something that looked like this:
```
directory /nix does not exist; creating it by running 'mkdir -m 0755 /nix && chown gabriel /nix' using sudo
```
The reason why is due to some bizarre behavior in Bash where it will translate anything of the form `$x’` to `??`, leading to the incorrect warning message. I don't know what is the origin of this Bash behavior, but the easiest fix is to just use ASCII quotes instead of unicode quotes.
| -rw-r--r-- | scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh index 509acc41f..95f69cad8 100644 --- a/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh +++ b/scripts/install-nix-from-closure.sh @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ echo "performing a single-user installation of Nix..." >&2 if ! [ -e $dest ]; then cmd="mkdir -m 0755 $dest && chown $USER $dest" - echo "directory $dest does not exist; creating it by running ‘$cmd’ using sudo" >&2 + echo "directory $dest does not exist; creating it by running '$cmd' using sudo" >&2 if ! sudo sh -c "$cmd"; then echo "$0: please manually run ‘$cmd’ as root to create $dest" >&2 exit 1 |