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Torsten Rehn wrote:
> 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
> 

I've quoted WORKDIR.

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