Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:15:21 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Rob Lahaye <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tcsh script: quote and spaces problems Message-ID: <3F29CD39.9080505@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <3F29C589.4030009@users.sourceforge.net> References: <3F29C589.4030009@users.sourceforge.net>
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Rob Lahaye wrote: [ ... ] > Any solutions for this problem with quotes and spaces in tcsh script? > Or is tcsh not suitable for this kind of things? Ugh, the latter. :-) /bin/sh handles nested quoting right, but crunches the space together: % foo="-f \"t \"" % echo $foo -f "t " % foo='-f "t "' % echo $foo -f "t " ...however, you might be able to muck with $IFS and get better results. Also, ZSH seems to do exactly what you expected: 64-sec% foo="-f \"t \"" 65-sec% echo $foo -f "t " 67-sec% foo='-f "t "' 68-sec% echo $foo -f "t " -- -Chuck
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