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Re: Invalid quoting in variable substitution.


From: Neal H. Walfield
Subject: Re: Invalid quoting in variable substitution.
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:50:32 -0500
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At Mon, 15 Mar 2004 13:01:59 -0500,
Paul Jarc wrote:
> 
> "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
> >     $ ls -1d *foo*
> >     \"foo
> >     foo
> >     $ ls -1d *foo* | while read i; do ls -1d "$i"; done
> >     ls: "foo: No such file or directory
> >     foo
> 
> Interpreting backslashes is normal behavior for the read builtin.

Arg, thanks for your help.  read -r it is.

Neal




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