<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Nils Kassube <<a href="mailto:kassube@gmx.net">kassube@gmx.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">Edward avanti wrote: > Halo, > Does anyone else find if they call the multi option from ubuntu sh > script it fails? > > For instance > > mkdir -p > /var/log/system_archives/{acpid,auth,btmp,daemon,dpkg,kernel,messages > ,pm,ppp,scrollkeeper,wpa,wtmp}/$YEAR upon checking this made a > directory called > /var/log/system_archives//{acpid,auth,btmp,daemon,dpkg,kernel,message > s,pm,ppp,scrollkeeper,wpa,wtmp}/2012 > > if I run this from my shell manually, it works > > this same script I use on all my servers, centos, gentoo, slackware, > on those it works as intended,. but on ubuntu it goes stupid not > honouring the {} </div></div>Probably you start your script with "#!/bin/sh" which is a link to dash in Ubuntu and to bash on other systems. As dash doesn't know your wanted feature, you should start your script with "#!/bin/bash" instead. Nils -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>