Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:31:27PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote:
> > Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Any is fine, there is no word splitting or wildcard expansion in
> > > shell variable assignments.
> > 
> > $ foo="bar   *   baz"
> > $ wombat=$foo
> > $ echo $wombat
> > bar somedir somefile baz
> 
> The wildcard expansion is not during the variable assignment, it's
> during the expansion of $wombat. Just try echo "$wombat" instead.

Right, you are! I do apologize.

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