Linux Desktop Hacks
by Jono Bacon & Nicholas Petreley

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

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        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated June 24, 2008.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


{87} top half of page;
I copied the script in example 4-1 and I get the following errors when i run the script:

Tue May 08 /usr/local/bin:$ sudo remindme 8:46am "call ritchie"
/usr/local/bin/remindme: line 12: ~/$reminder: ambiguous redirect
/usr/local/bin/remindme: line 13: ~/$reminder: ambiguous redirect
/usr/local/bin/remindme: line 14: ~/$reminder: ambiguous redirect
/usr/local/bin/remindme: line 16: ~/$reminder: ambiguous redirect
chmod: cannot access `/home/alank/reminders/reminder-date': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `+%F-%H-%M-%S': No such file or directory
syntax error. Last token seen: %
Garbled time