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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