From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 09:50:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06079 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:50:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA06037 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:50:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA11665 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 02:04:06 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199608211634.CAA11665@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Quotes around variable values in /etc/sysconfig To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 02:04:06 +0930 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Howdy people. I missed Bruce's comment about quotes surrounding values in sh config files like /etc/sysconfig - my question is basically whether there is any reason (other than elegance) why all values could not legitimately be quoted. Note that I'm not suggesting that this should be done for the FreeBSD point of view; I'm just working on some tools to manage these sort of files, and unconditionally quoting everything is easier 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[