From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Don Petrowski Subject: Re: Variable Quoting Date: 14 Oct 2002 15:54:16 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1034628857.25913.16.camel@workwatcher> References: <004201c2739b$220b5b90$64fea8c0@pkrausxp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <004201c2739b$220b5b90$64fea8c0@pkrausxp> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Kraus Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs