Re: shell quoting woes

[Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu>]

I don't think this is a quoting problem.  The problem is your hash mark.  
Remember that's a comment character, so you'll need to escape it (put a \ in 
front).

Try something like this:

nmblookup -R $(eval echo "$username\#03") -U $nbns 

I don't think it's necessary to use the '\" stuff.

Good luck.

BTW,

> $ nmblookup -R "jereme#03" -U merlin
> 
>    And I get back:
>    querying jereme on 192.168.0.200
>    name_query failed to find name jereme#03

Is this what you expect? I've never used nmblookup, but it looks to me like 
your lookup command is failing as well.


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