[svlug] Baffled by bash

[Skip Evans]

Yup. That was it.

And I actually wondered about that, but that I'd 
see 'permission denied', not 'No such file or 
directory.'

Guess I just should have tried it anyway.

Thanks much!
Skip

Jeff Frost wrote:
> You're probably trying to write to a directory you don't have write 
> access in.
> 
> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Skip Evans wrote:
> 
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm on a client's server trying to export a MySQL
>> database, something I've done a gajillion times,
>> but I'm getting results from this bash shell I
>> don't understand. See below:
>>
>> [skip at www-lax-001 phpMyAdmin]$ mysqldump -u
>> pointleader -p pointsdata > points.sql
>> -bash: points.sql: No such file or directory
>>
>> Why does it think points.sql should be an existing
>> file? I Googled for 'bash shell redirect' and
>> found a page saying I needed a '&' in front of the
>> '>' char, but got the same results.
>>
>> What gives?
>>
>> Thanks!!!
>>
> 

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