From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 18:20:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7762516A421 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:20:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65DC013C469 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:20:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 545791EFB60A; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:20:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 4106028098; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:20:23 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 1180711d-9cbecbb000001e9b-59-478cf967d053 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 205C22808F; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:20:23 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <780F066B-1F42-479C-800F-3A9895E6DE62@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: =?UTF-8?Q?Nikola_Le=C4=8Di=C4=87?= In-Reply-To: <20080115190849.622c2ab9@anthesphoria.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v915) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:20:22 -0800 References: <560f92640801142157n7194be23u8c4eac084ed474c9@mail.gmail.com> <20080115144508.204f0c77@anthesphoria.net> <560f92640801150852s32ee4b24ud6b19ad8b8211f0c@mail.gmail.com> <20080115190849.622c2ab9@anthesphoria.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.915) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org, Nerius Landys Subject: Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:20:23 -0000 On Jan 15, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87 wrote: >> P.S. I hope I'm doing the quoting thing ``properly'', not >> "incorrectly". > > IMHO there is neither FreeBSD- nor Linux-specific mails, and there > shouldn't be such thing. These mails are written in English, so it > seems that neither of us is right: quotes should be =E2=80=9Clike = this=E2=80=9D, =20 > not > "like this" or ``like this''. While I would agree with the above, Unix shells make a distinction =20 between different types of quote characters, and if you are talking =20 about command-line programming or scripts, there is an advantage to =20 quoting things in a fashion that the shell will be happy with. Double-quotes (") permit variable, history, and alias expansion of the =20= quoted terms, whereas single forward quotes (') give you a string =20 literal and disable expansion. Backquotes (`) are used to perform =20 command substitution and are a synonym for "$(command)" syntax; =20 something like "echo `ls`" would be a simple example. Regards, --=20 -Chuck