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Re: texlive2007 and otfinst.py



Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> $cat bin/testing/expandquote
> #!/bin/sh
>
> foo="string with space"
> : ${bar:=$foo} 
> echo $bar
> $ bin/testing/expandquote
> string with space
> $
>
> ist that what you want?

Yes (I'd have put 'foo="string    with spaces"' and 'echo "$bar"' to be
really sure, but I think your test is OK).

Reason: with 'foo="string    with spaces"', 'echo $bar' gives

          string with spaces

        whereas 'echo "$bar"' gives the correct

          string    with spaces

-- 
Florent



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