From: Don Petrowski <dpetrowski@ci.collierville.tn.us>
To: Paul Kraus <pkraus@pelsupply.com>
Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Variable Quoting
Date: 14 Oct 2002 15:54:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034628857.25913.16.camel@workwatcher> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <004201c2739b$220b5b90$64fea8c0@pkrausxp>
Give this a try
> string somevariable="somediretory/somesubdirectory/some\ directory\
with\ spaces/*"
string somevariable="somediretory/somesubdirectory/some directory with
spaces/*"
> cp $somevarable $somedestination
cp "$somevarable" $somedestination
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-14 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-14 16:02 Variable Quoting Paul Kraus
2002-10-14 16:32 ` Jim Reimer
2002-10-14 16:38 ` Jim Reimer
2002-10-14 17:59 ` Paul Kraus
2002-10-14 20:54 ` Don Petrowski [this message]
[not found] <200210142055.11942.linux-newbie@jimmo.com>
2002-10-14 18:38 ` Paul Kraus
2002-10-14 19:58 ` James Mohr
2002-10-14 19:53 ` Paul Kraus
2002-10-15 16:13 ` Paul Furness
2002-10-16 7:23 ` ichi
2002-10-16 10:51 ` Paul Furness
2002-10-14 19:55 ` Paul Kraus
2002-10-14 21:00 ` James Mohr
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