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Re: Whiptail question



On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:

> try putting quotes (") around the variable references like so:
> 
> whiptail --backtitle "$BACKTITLE" --title "$BOXTITLE" --yesno "Yes or No" 7 40
> 
> the quotes will serve to escape the spaces in the variables, so whiptail
> sees the whole string as one argument.  it's got nothing to do with
> whiptail, actually....it's just standard sh usage.
> 
> craig

I was sure that I had tried that but at 2am ... I guess I was a little
foggy.  Thanks for the nudge.



George Bonser 
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