bug-bash
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Characters aren't being properly escaped/evaluated in a Bash


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Characters aren't being properly escaped/evaluated in a Bash
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:05:48 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux)

garrett.w.cooper@intel.com writes:

> Fix:
>       The problem lies in the parser somewhere,

The problem is that you are not correctly quoting.  Better use $(...)
instead of `...`, that is easier for beginners to get right.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]