Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Feb 2016 at 08:24:22 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > keep in mind that the quotation marks, wildcard characters, and > variables are interpreted by the shell parser, not by the program > you run. By quoting you control what the program will get to see > as its list of arguments. ... bu

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > > > 3. aptitude purge 'deborphan --guess-all' i wrote: > > Here i assume, that aptitude shall learn a command line which > > it will execute on its own discretion. Darac Marjal wrote: > Careful, I think this last command actually uses `backticks`. That's indeed much more plaus

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:16:17PM +0100, Hans wrote: Hi all, first of all, thanks for the fast response. If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it). Yes, here is an example: 1. apt-get --purge remove 4.3.

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:16:17PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > first of all, thanks for the fast response. > > > If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right > > thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, keep in mind that the quotation marks, wildcard characters, and variables are interpreted by the shell parser, not by the program you run. By quoting you control what the program will get to see as its list of arguments. Hans wrote: > 1. apt-get --purge remove 4.3.1-0-* Without quotation m

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-01 Thread Hans
Hi all, first of all, thanks for the fast response. > If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right > thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it). > Yes, here is an example: 1. apt-get --purge remove 4.3.1-0-* will remove all packages with4.3.1-0-* var

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > variables (and strings) are set in different marks and what it does mean. > I found "foo", `foo` and 'foo' at different tools. In manual pages you can find `text' or ``text''. There seem to be some important religious rules about proper quotation marks at various occasions. I

Re: OT: variables

2016-02-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:03:03PM +0100, Hans wrote: > please apologize my maybe silly question, but I never understood, when > variables (and strings) are set in different marks and what it does mean. > > I found "foo", `foo` and 'foo' at different tools. > > Maybe someone can enlighten me, w