"Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Gaby | | On Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:30 AM you wrote: | | > ! chunk=$arg | > ... | > ! chunk=`echo -n $arg` | | What shell actually requires such an awkward construction? | Of if you wish why not write: | | chunk="$arg" | | or even better :-)
the trouble with this is that is does not work -- I spent a considerable amount of time on this quote micmac. :-( | | chunk=`echo -n "$arg"` this one is one needed. | | But I think "quotes" are only needed on argments to external | commands like 'test', not on variable assignments or echo. Well, my shell (Zsh) is unhappy with the form chunk="$arg", when cunk is used later with -R. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
