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Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)



On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:35:53 +0100
Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a
> little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes
> spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> A="Hello"
> B="Karsten"
> C=$A $B 
> someprog --greeting $C
try someprog --greeting "$C", that should work... indeed, I think
you should do:

C="$A $B"

also

[]s!

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