| 1 |
On Wednesday 14 November 2007 14:21, you wrote: |
| 2 |
> But why is it standard to quote other assignments like in DESCRIPTION and |
| 3 |
> HOMEPAGE then? |
| 4 |
|
| 5 |
When assigning literal values as in DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE, you have to |
| 6 |
quote. ${WORKDIR} is quoted on its assignment and therefore does not have to |
| 7 |
be quoted when assigning its value to another variable (${S}) by reference. |
| 8 |
|
| 9 |
[gentop][scel@~] > cat test.sh |
| 10 |
#!/bin/bash |
| 11 |
TEXT="A B" |
| 12 |
Q=${TEXT} |
| 13 |
echo ${TEXT} |
| 14 |
FAIL=DONT TRYTHISATHOME |
| 15 |
[gentop][scel@~] > ./test.sh |
| 16 |
A B |
| 17 |
./test.sh: line 5: TRYTHISATHOME: command not found |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
-- |
| 20 |
Torsten Rehn <scel@××××.org> |
| 21 |
Gentoo AMD64 Arch Tester |
| 22 |
http://scel.info |
Archives