On Wednesday 14 November 2007 14:21, you wrote: > But why is it standard to quote other assignments like in DESCRIPTION and > HOMEPAGE then?
When assigning literal values as in DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE, you have to
quote. ${WORKDIR} is quoted on its assignment and therefore does not have to
be quoted when assigning its value to another variable (${S}) by reference.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > cat test.sh
#!/bin/bash
TEXT="A B"
Q=${TEXT}
echo ${TEXT}
FAIL=DONT TRYTHISATHOME
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ./test.sh
A B
./test.sh: line 5: TRYTHISATHOME: command not found
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