> Steve Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >>
> >> I've never seen a shell that cared about white space around
> >> metacharacters.
>
> And, of course, I was wrong, as Petr Novotny pointed out, in the case
> of "1 >" vs "1>" for Bourne variants.
>
> >No but it's rather crucial to include whitespace between the
> two arguments
> >"to:" and "user1"
>
> Is it? Did you try it? I did, and it worked fine without the space.
ahem ... <goes red> ... no I haven't tried it...
telnet .... qmail-inject... whoops!
I do apologise. I read somewhere in the docs that you should be
careful to include the space... And surely the space makes the
difference between the program receiving one or two arguments... but I
guess so many people missed out the space that the program was coded
both ways in the end...
