Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:41:04 -0500 (CDT) From: kesu <kesu@kesuki.dyndns.org> To: <bugs@freebsd.org> Subject: Shell variables don't expand always... Message-ID: <20010718012832.P48799-100000@kesuki.dyndns.org>
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This bug seems to be a feature of someone who's never used a sh script to write html. Apparently "" allows variables to expand while '' does not. since `` is used to execute there are no other 'allowed' quote character that I can see (not for a shell anyways) The problem, html uses ""'s so unless I individually escape them i can't get variables to expand wfor auto generated html. I hate escapes... I always mess up my scripts when I use escapes and it takes me hours to figure out why, which is why I avoid them at all costs. These are simply 5 minute scripts designed to just automate a mundane and repetitive html writing task and I need the variable to expand and I need ""'s inside the html, and escapes drive me crazy. so when I upgraded last feb, and unknowningly broke a script I never thought to check on, and just today discovered why and how it broke I really have to nosider it a bug, enen though it was probably a feature for someone to write a script to auto generate some java/javascript (which might need the variables intact and probably hate escapes) --- 12:00PM up 10 days, 11:49, 8 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Fortune of the day: Nasrudin walked into a teahouse and declaimed, "The moon is more useful than the sun." "Why?", he was asked. "Because at night we need the light more." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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