Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-07 Thread John Hasler
Kamaraju writes: > I am wondering if there is a way to rewrite the names variable in > stanza2 such that the output from stanza 1 and stanza 2 are the same. I can think of several, but I doubt any will do what you want. What is your actual problem? What are you trying to achieve? -- John Hasler

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-07 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: > * 2011-07-07T07:13:24+02:00 * Javier Barroso wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi >> wrote: >>> Consider the following shell script > >>> #! /bin/sh > >> You can use array variables if you want: >> >> names=("kam

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-07 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-07-07T07:13:24+02:00 * Javier Barroso wrote: > On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > wrote: >> Consider the following shell script >> #! /bin/sh > You can use array variables if you want: > > names=("kama" "raju" "k a m a") > for i in "${names[@]}" Yes, but not with /b

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-06 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following shell script > > $cat manual_listing.sh > #! /bin/sh > > # stanza 1 > for i in "kama" "raju" "k a m a" "r a j u" > do >        echo $i > done > > # stanza 2 > names='kama raju' > for i in $names > do >        ech

Re: OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-06 Thread William Hopkins
On 07/06/11 at 11:22pm, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Consider the following shell script > > $cat manual_listing.sh > >

OT: quoting variable names in shell scripts

2011-07-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Consider the following shell script $cat manual_listing.sh #! /bin/sh # stanza 1 for i in "kama" "raju" "k a m