On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:15:31AM -0100, andrej hocevar wrote: > Of course, that was the first thing that came to mi mind, too. But > it didn't work -- unfortunately I can't give you more details as it > was a friend's script, yet I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I can't really help unless you give more details, unfortunately. Am I confused? Do you mean something different by "a single variable" than I think you do? > I thought maybe one could change the meaning of the spaces, e.g. by > assigning something to IFS? It's possible, but inadvisable. > Even if it was a mistake -- is there no other way then quoting? You can backslash-escape spaces as well, but that's just another way of quoting. > A quick look at some manuals gave me the impression that this problem > might not be just a silly mistake of mine, can it? I'm not quite sure what you mean there ... -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
