Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 04:46:26PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: > >> findtexmf psfonts_t1.map > > > >cd "$(cygpath -u "$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)")" > > cd "$(cygpath -u '$(findtexmf psfonts_t1.map)')" > > will probably work a little better. As Eric knows, you can't nest quotes > that way. Huh? My example works just fine; it's yours that is broken (since '' surpresses the innermost $() command substitution): $ echo "$(echo '$(echo 'a b')')" $(echo a b) By the way, $() is saner than `` when it comes to nesting and "" (as required by POSIX): $ echo "$(echo "$(echo 'a b')")" a b Here's the same thing in properly quoted ``, at least when using a POSIX- compliant shell (in general, "`""`" is non-portable, since other bourne shell implementations parse it differently than what POSIX requires): $ echo "`echo \"\`echo 'a b'\`\"`" a b (in examples like these, I like to use two spaces to guarantee that I've used enough quoting) -- Eric Blake -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
