gabriel rosenkoetter on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 18:50:11 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Silly rsh question...


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

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