>>>>> "GRVS" == Gary R Van Sickle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ken wrote: >> Thanks. One of these years I will eventually understand when >> quotes cause an item with embedded spaces to be a single item >> and when they get lost in processing, causing the embedded >> space item to be multiple items. GRVS> Well, when you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so GRVS> the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-) heh. Try O'Reilly's _Learning The Bash Shell_. Makes the arcane cane; straightened out my weird mish-mash of things known, unknown, remembered, half-remembered, those understood, and the items not understood but done by rote. Nice examples, nice explication of all those disparate weird but powerful features that were inherited from historic shells. -- Patricia J. Hawkins Hawkins Internet Applications www.hawkinsia.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
