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From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
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: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com>
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: conf/3751: Improvements to /etc/rc{,.network,.pccard} 
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 03:54:29 -0300

 J> foo="-ain't this weird?-"
 
 J> if [ "$foo" = "bar" ] ; ...
 >>  Did you mean:
 >> 
 >> if [ $foo = "bar" ] ; ...
 >> 
 >> Shell metacharacters aren't expanded with "$foo".
 
 J> No, i meant the problem that arises if $foo evaluates to something
 J> that could become a valid switch for test(1).
 
 Oh.  That's a problem, and another reason why I often prefer a case statement.
 
 The good news is that in none of the places I've changed would this be
 the case.
 
 H