[syslinux] append parameter??

[Marc Haisenko]

On Wednesday 31 March 2004 09:23, elmar bschorer wrote:
> i`am reading the given parameter in linuxrc with the following command:
>
> CMDLINE="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
>
> to test if all went well i check it by executing:
>
> echo $CMDLINE
>
> in linuxrc. but nothing is beeing displayed!
> hmmm...what am i doing wrong??

I guess you don't have "cat" in your initrd... this is also another entry in 
the "Useless use of cat" award ;-) Make that

CMDLINE=$(< /proc/cmdline)

which is more effective (bash does the work as opposed to cat) and try again 
:-)
C'ya,
	Marc

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