From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 21 17: 4:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE25D14BFF for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA81517; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Harlan Stenn Cc: Doug , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:50:46 EDT." <24142.935279446@brown.pfcs.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:59:38 -0700 Message-ID: <81513.935279978@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there > might be some whitespace in there, too. Actually, that's mostly just historical legacy. When the quotes, it's safe even if the expansion is empty or contains whitespace. I got kinda annoyed with this last night and did the following: http://www.freebsd.org/~jkh/etc.diffs.fix-it-right Which I've sent to Sheldon for review but haven't heard anything back from him yet. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message