Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

[ktb <xyf@nixnotes.org>]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a
> little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes
> spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> A="Hello"
> B="Karsten"
> C=$A $B 
> someprog --greeting $C
> 

#!/bin/bash
A="Hello"
B="Karsten"
C="$A $B"

echo "$C"

Works fine for me.  

kent@scab:~/scratch$ ./yo2
Hello Karsten

What is your "someprog" ?
kent

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