Re: shell escape problem?

[Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>]

Bruno Hertz wrote:
> Almut Behrens <almut_behrens@gmx.net> writes:
>
>
> > CMD='./showargs --add-window -T --tname==.teaching/ --tcommand="mutt -f =.teaching/"'
> > eval $CMD
>
>
> Right, it needs an eval, too. So, assignment in single quotes and
> eval call should fix it.
>
> Regards, Bruno.
thanks as always to everyone.  this is great.  Almut, thanks in 
particular for the showargs trick, that made it much easier to 
understand what was happening.  though truth to tell I didn't find it 
clearer in the manpage than in your (crystalline) email...

Matt

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