On 02-Nov-2001 (12:58:55/GMT) Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >>> because `echo' nicely removes \n's from env vars when it prints them.
>> des@des ~% foo='bar >> quote> baz' >> des@des ~% echo $foo >> bar >> baz >> des@des ~% /bin/echo $foo >> bar >> baz > humm! what shell ($SHELL) are you using ? Here (5.0-CURRENT 31-Oct and 4.4-STABLE 12-Oct), with /bin/sh works fine: % /bin/sh # foobar="foo > bar" # echo $foobar foo bar # echo $SHELL /bin/sh Riccardo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message