On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 01:23:21PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Or, how about we require them to provide the backup label contents in its > > entirety? Which I believe does contain that WAL portion? The downside of > > that is that it would be multiline which might screw with shellscripts. > > This is getting a bit beyond the pale imv if we're talking about trying > to cater to software that can't manage to handle a multi-line result or > multi-line argument to a function.
Seems to work for me in bash: $ X='a > b > c' $ echo "$X" a b c $ echo $X a b c You need the double quotes around the variable name. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee