On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 10:33:02AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Which raises the question - what if the expansion contains double quote > chars? Perhaps using double-backslash (or quad??) would do the trick?
You mean like this?: $ FOO='foo "more foo" bar' $ echo "$FOO" foo "more foo" bar This works because the shell when parsing the echo line first expands $FOO, which results in 'echo "foo "more foo" bar"' and then it performes quote removal but only on those quotes that did not result from a previous expansion. Since the quotes around "more foo" result from expanding $FOO, they are not removed. Regards Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
