Andreas, This doesn't work unfortunately, and yields the same errors seen with the backticks.
-Garrett -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Schwab [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:06 AM To: Cooper, Garrett W Cc: bug-bash@gnu.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Characters aren't being properly escaped/evaluated in a Bash [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Fix: > The problem lies in the parser somewhere, The problem is that you are not correctly quoting. Better use $(...) instead of `...`, that is easier for beginners to get right. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash