[gentoo-user] Re: Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-07-29, Ian Zimmerman <itz@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 2017-07-29 18:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> > PROMPT='Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): '
>> > read -p $PROMPT device
>>
>> Nit: that doesn't work quite right either.  It should be
>>
>>  PROMPT='Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): '
>>  read -p "$PROMPT" device
>>
>> or
>>
>>  read -p 'Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' device
>
> Correct.  All my scripts run with IFS='' so for me it does work ;-)

Ah, I hadn't thought about that.  I might have to thy that.  It makes
code cleaner-looking when you don't have to put all varible references
inside double-quotes.  But, in what ways is it going to trip me up
after all these decades of writing shell scripts the old way?

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