Re: shell quoting

Edgar Fuß <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.userlevel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
EF> Well, it looks more symmetric to the eye and even in
EF> 	foo="foo bar"
EF> I find the quotes useful.

VU> "It's not just a good idea, it's the law" :)
VU> 
VU> Compare
VU> 
VU>   foo="foo env"
VU> 
VU> vs.
VU> 
VU>   foo=foo env
Sorry, stupid me. I shouldn't try to run more threads in my brain simultaneously than it can cope with.

I meant I sometimes find it useful to write
	foo="bar"
First, it looks more like other programming languages, second, it looks weird 
(to me) to have
	foo=bar
	foobar="foo bar"
.
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