Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 $C
You need something like #!/bin/sh A=Hello B=Karsten C="$A $B" someprog --greeting "$C" Without the quotes, the shell expands things to someprog --greeting Hello Karsten which then gets turned into arguments "someprog", "--greeting", "Hello", "Karsten"; presumably someprog only reads a single argument after --greeting, and gets just "Hello". -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
