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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: conf/3751: Improvements to /etc/rc{,.network,.pccard}
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The following reply was made to PR conf/3751; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com (Harlan Stenn)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/3751: Improvements to /etc/rc{,.network,.pccard}
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 21:21:11 +0200

 As Harlan Stenn wrote:
 
 > J> foo="-ain't this weird?-"
 > 
 > J> if [ "$foo" = "bar" ] ; ...
 > 
 > Did you mean:
 > 
 >    if [ $foo = "bar" ] ; ... 
 > 
 > Shell metacharacters aren't expanded with "$foo".
 
 No, i meant the problem that arises if $foo evaluates to something
 that could become a valid switch for test(1).
 
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