Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 09 Oct 1998 11:28:27 +0200 |
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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> writes:
|> "A month of sundays ago Andreas Schwab wrote:" |> > |> > |> Without the quotes, it would expand to |> > |> |> > |> ALLMODES=a.o b.o c.o ... |> > |> |> > |> which means: (1) set environment variable ALLMODES to a.o, (2) execute |> > |> command b.o with args c.o ... |> > |> > Wrong. Variable assignments aren't subject to word splitting. |> |> Don't rely on it: |> |> bash$ eval "hi=ho `echo \"; echo $hi\"`" |> ho
This is something completely different. Here there is exactly one variable assignment (hi=ho) where word splitting would not make any difference if it were done (assuming default $IFS).
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org
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