[TriLUG] HOWTO: Create PDFs using Samba but not CUPS

[Steve Hoffman]

AHHHHHHHH (sound of lightbulb lighting, then immidiately blowing).  I had
tried time and time again to use the php/perl method of concatenation with
variable = "blah" . $var1 . "Blah.pdf"

Thank you!!!

steve

On 2/27/06, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
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> David McDowell said the following:
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> >Ok, the relationship between %U abnd $2 makes sense now.  I changed
> >the _ to - and now I have filenames:  -Feb27-160509.pdf  so the _ was
> >part of it, but I'm still not getting a username value.
> >
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> Variable names in bash can have underscores in them, so
> you need to do something like this to draw the line between
> the variable name and your delimiters.
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> filename=${user}_${date}_${whatever}
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> This trick is useful if you are using a delimiter like "x".
> Otherwise, how would bash know that the x's are not part
> of the variable names?  filename=$userx$datex$whatever
> will not work, filename=${user}x${date}x${whatever} will.
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> Alan
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