H. J. Lu wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:13:30AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Please do this instead: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "$BUGURL" | sed 's/@/@@/g'`} >> > > Will it work with spaces in $BUGURL?
Yes, it will. You need quoting in the echo command, but not in the variable assignment. Quoting both the echo command-line and the variable assignment is not portable. Variable assignments (and case statements, as Andreas pointed out) do not perform word splitting of variables. Paolo
