On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > A="Hello" > B="Karsten" > C=$A $B > someprog --greeting $C > > Whatever I do now, --greeting receices only the "Hello" part. I've > tried some other variants too: > > C="$A $B" > C=\"$A $a\B" > C='$A $B' > C=$A\ $B > C=`echo $A $B` > > What works is > someprog --greeting "Hello Karsten" > but that's no solution.
try someprot --greeting "$A $B" There's an excelleng bash scripting HOWTO (don't know the URL right of the top of my head) that should be very useful. > > Please help :-) > > Karsten > > -- Paul F. Pearson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://home.hiwaay.net/~ppearson/ "Lord heal our land. Father heal our land. Hear our cry and turn our nation back to You" - Heal Our Land, _Magnify The Lord_ (Integrity Music)
