Dear Mats Kärrman, please don't top post/full quote. If needed, please read http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > If not correct, then what is this supposed to mean (common/main.c :: > builtin_run_command()): > > /* > * Find separator, or string end > * Allow simple escape of ';' by writing "\;" > */ As I metioned, this is the _second_ part of escaping, that which happens when processing the commands. The first part happens when reading the environment. The examples I gave should show pretty well how it works: > > See here: > > > > => setenv foo 'echo part one\;echo part two' ; print foo ; run > foo > > foo=echo part one;echo part two > > part one > > part two > > => setenv foo 'echo part one\\;echo part two' ; print foo ; run> > > foo > > foo=echo part one\;echo part two > > part one;echo part two > > => Here is one more: => setenv foo echo part one\\\;echo part two ; print foo ; run foo foo=echo part one\;echo part two part one;echo part two => Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future. - Niels Bohr _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
