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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:48:28 +0000 (UTC)
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Subject: Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
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Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> DIRNAME="`dirname \"$0\"`"
> cd "$DIRNAME"
> SCRIPTDIR="`pwd`"
> 
> What if I got rid of extra double quotes?  Like this:
> 
> DIRNAME=`dirname \"$0\"`
> cd "$DIRNAME"
> SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`

That is perfectly fine.  Word-splitting and filename expansion are
not performed for variable assignments.  Also immune is the expression
after "case", so this is always fine:
 
  case $FOO in ...
 
-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de