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From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <P.Dawidek@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:46:26AM -0700, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
+> I am writing a script to generate ipfw test cases, and as
+> part of the script i need to generate 'actions' which can be either
+> one or more, e.g.
[...]
+> 	actions="allow 'deny log' 'pipe 10'"
+> 	for act in $actions ; do
+> 		echo "add $act ip from 1.2.3.4 to 5.6.7.8"
+> 	done
+> 
+> I have tried to play tricks with quotes and backquotes, backslashes,
+> eval, etc. but no methods helped. Any ideas ?

Maybe just:

IFS='#'
actions="allow#deny log#pipe 10"
for act in $actions; do
	echo "add $act ip from 1.2.3.4 to 5.6.7.8"
done

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