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Re: Yet another quoting question
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Yet another quoting question |
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Fri, 06 May 2011 12:05:53 -0400 |
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On 5/6/11 12:00 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:50:34AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> Eric suggested %q, and that works to a
>> certain degree, but you can also use
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>> printf '"%s" ' "${vals[@]}" ; echo
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>> and get the double-quoting you want.
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> Fails horribly if the array elements contain double quotes of their own.
Read what I wrote:
"For straight debugging output, it's probably ok."
Presumably Steven understands something about the expected values and will
be able to cope with a stray double-quote.
Chet
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