Re: Multiline variables?

[Dan Kegel]

Ha!  The difference is the command base64 defaults to no wrapping on Mac OS,
but wrapping on Linux.

Mystery solved!  I was looking under the wrong rock :-)
- Dan

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:40 AM Greg Chicares <gchicares@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> On 2020-09-19 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote:
> >
> > export PUB="$(base64 < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
> > make
> >
> > where Makefile is
> >
> > all:
> >         echo "${PUB}"
> >
> > and it worked fine on Mac, despite PUB being a multiline string.
> >
> > 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?
>
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