Re: multiple words as single variable in bash?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:15:31AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote:
> Of course, that was the first thing that came to mi mind, too. But
> it didn't work -- unfortunately I can't give you more details as it
> was a friend's script, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I can't really help unless you give more details, unfortunately. Am I
confused? Do you mean something different by "a single variable" than I
think you do?
> I thought maybe one could change the meaning of the spaces, e.g. by
> assigning something to IFS?
It's possible, but inadvisable.
> Even if it was a mistake -- is there no other way then quoting?
You can backslash-escape spaces as well, but that's just another way of
quoting.
> A quick look at some manuals gave me the impression that this problem
> might not be just a silly mistake of mine, can it?
I'm not quite sure what you mean there ...
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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