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Re: another IDL oddity [message #65256 is a reply to message #65174]

Wed, 18 February 2009 02:43

Nigel Wade
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Registered: March 1998

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Bringfried Stecklum wrote:

> jschwab@gmail.com wrote:
>>> Any hints?
>>
>> It's just an artifact of the way that quotes are handled.
>>
>> Compare
>> jschwab: jschwab$ echo my_procedure,'Hello.world'
>> my_procedure,Hello.world
>>
>> to
>>
>> jschwab: jschwab$ echo my_procedure,'"'Hello.world'"'
>> my_procedure,"Hello.world"
>>
>> jschwab: jschwab$ echo my_procedure,"'"Hello.world"'"
>> my_procedure,'Hello.world'
>>
>> jschwab: jschwab$ echo "my_procedure,'Hello.world'"
>> my_procedure,'Hello.world'
>>
>>
>> Josiah
>
> Thanks to all of you for solving this issue. I am a little surprised that the
> call from bash (without the double quote) worked all those years on the old
SuSE
> 8.0 system but does not on Ubuntu 8.1 now. I guess handling quotes is
something
> vital in bash but it seems I overlooked a change of this behavior.
>

I'd be very surprised if anything in bash had changed between SuSE 8 and Ubuntu.
Bash is pretty much enshrined in granite these days. There is a difference,
however, between running those commands interactively and putting them in a
script. In a script the quotes would not have been stripped - this may account
for the difference in behaviour.

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Nigel Wade

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