Shell sh: Illegal variable name

[skunk]


env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg install -y -A $(make -C /usr/ports/www/apache24 missing)


gives me "Illegal variable name".
Any idea what is wrong?

 

[T-Daemon]

Use

/usr/ports/www/apache24 # yes | make install-missing-packages

instead.

 

[SirDice]

gives me "Illegal variable name".
Any idea what is wrong?

tcsh(1) doesn't understand the $(....) syntax and interprets it as a variable. Use the backticks (`....`) with csh/tcsh.

But yeah, like T-Daemon says, use make install-missing-packages

 

[T-Daemon]

/usr/ports/www/apache24 # yes | make install-missing-packages

Apparently yes(1) doesn't work here.

env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES does.

 

[skunk]

Thank you guys

So the problem was that (t)csh was active when I believed that sh were active.
Thus, replacing that line with

cd /usr/ports/www/apache24
env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES make install-missing-packages

seemed to me the safest solution. Not elegant but shell-agnostic.