Date: 31 Jul 2003 22:23:34 -0400 From: "Michael E. Mercer" <mmercer@nc.rr.com> To: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh script: quote and spaces problems Message-ID: <1059704614.1455.7.camel@dual.mmercer.com> In-Reply-To: <1059703954.1455.4.camel@dual.mmercer.com> References: <3F29C589.4030009@users.sourceforge.net> <1059703954.1455.4.camel@dual.mmercer.com>
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ok ok... I noticed one thing while playing with this...
the script hello.sh
#!/bin/tcsh -f
set JUNK='-f "t "'
echo ">>${JUNK}<<"
echo ">>"${JUNK}"<<"
The first echo prints it -f "t "
and the second -f "t "
Can you use it with the double quotes around it?
later
MeM
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 22:12, Michael E. Mercer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 21:42, Rob Lahaye wrote:
> > When I use
> > set flag='-f "t "'
> >
>
> When I echo this out, I get what you are wanting...
> can you show us how you are using this, to get the "weird" behavior?
>
> Thanks
> MeM
>
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