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Re: Multiline variables?
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Greg Chicares |
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Re: Multiline variables? |
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Sun, 20 Sep 2020 08:40:00 +0000 |
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On 2020-09-19 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote:
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> export PUB="$(base64 < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
> make
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> where Makefile is
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> all:
> echo "${PUB}"
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> and it worked fine on Mac, despite PUB being a multiline string.
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> On Ubuntu (even with the same version of gnu make),
> it breaks terribly, complaining about a missing quote
> on the end of the first line of the string. Evidently this is not portable.
[...]
> I couldn't tell why they worked on the mac. Any guesses?
Just a guess--If $PUB is exported before running make, in an
interactive shell, then is that shell zsh by default for mac,
but bash for ubuntu?