On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 > servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly > to a variable substitution problem. > > The line causing the problem reads: report="/root/clamscan-report" > > On one server echo $report prints /root/clamscan-report while on > the other it prints "/root/clamscan-report". > > Needless to say clamscan can't print to the latter. I fixed it by > removing the quotes on the one server but now the scripts are > different between the two servers, which isn't what I want. More > importantly, I don't understand why it refuses to remove the quotes. > > Where does this behaviour (keeping the quotes) get set? What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' is involved in quote removal. Cheers - t
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