>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Sure, but useless quotes are better than missing quotes. I
Lars> haven't studied the Bourne shell syntax that hard, and given all
Lars> the variations over how the so-called Bourne shell compatible
Lars> shells behave, I've taken the better safe than sorry approach to
Lars> sh scripting.
Yes and no. Your reason is correct, but as a corollary it will push
you toward nonportable constructs. For instance your
absolute="`cd "$relative" && pwd`"
is not portable, and nor is
absolute="`cd \"$relative\" && pwd`"
while
absolute=`cd "$relative" && pwd`
is. Overquoting has its problems too.
You don't have to quote rhs of assignments, nor the case argument
case `echo there are spaces in there` in
"there are"*there ) echo OK;;
*) echo 'Niah???';;
esac
