| gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:50:11 +0200 |
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On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:51:38AM -0400, Jeff Weisberg wrote: > the quotes are stripped by your local shell, not rsh. > no bug. Note that I *did* correct that in a post that made it back to me before yours made it here... > "don't trust it"? what, you think it's conspiring against you, > whispering behind your back? very few shells have the ability > to dynamically alter their quoting rules. just learn what your > shell does, and when in doubt, test your assumptions with an > 'echo'. Why the confrontational attitude? I don't trust all shells to behave the same way. (And know, for instance, that zsh behaves differently in this regard than bash, so it's not just a C shell versus Bourne shell thing.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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