Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

[Javier Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> * 2011-07-07T07:13:24+02:00 * Javier Barroso wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
>> <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Consider the following shell script
>
>>> #! /bin/sh
>
>> You can use array variables if you want:
>>
>> names=("kama" "raju" "k a m a")
>> for i in "${names[@]}"
>
> Yes, but not with /bin/sh. OK, it's usually possible to just change the
> interpreter to /bin/bash, but with /bin/sh the $@ array can be used:

Ooops, true!! :) I have not an shell interpreter in my head :-P

Thanks!