Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 16:59:38 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> Cc: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up Message-ID: <81513.935279978@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 19:50:46 EDT." <24142.935279446@brown.pfcs.com>
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> I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there
> might be some whitespace in there, too.
Actually, that's mostly just historical legacy. When the quotes, it's
safe even if the expansion is empty or contains whitespace. I got
kinda annoyed with this last night and did the following:
http://www.freebsd.org/~jkh/etc.diffs.fix-it-right
Which I've sent to Sheldon for review but haven't heard anything
back from him yet.
- Jordan
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