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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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  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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