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From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: Is quoting necessary in /etc/rc.conf ?
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On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 11:00:03 +0000
Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> On my system, it works whether I put either of the following in rc.conf:
> 
> xyz_enable="YES"
> 
> Or,
> 
> xyz_enable=YES
> 
> Just wished to check whether an unquoted YES is completely equivalent 
> (and accepted) as a quoted YES ?

	Since rc.conf is sourced into shell scripts (/bin/sh) what you're
doing in it is setting shell variables, so the quotes are only really
needed if there are spaces in the value (which you could also escape).

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>