To close the loop:
I thought that before hitting "Send" with my response to Eric's latest
email, I should check to see if the problem was still happening. I
removed the quotes from around x$1 and ran it. The scripts now works
as expected. So whatever it was, it was temporary and can no longer b
On 12/18/2013 07:18 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>>> if [ "x$1" = xclip ]
>>
>> Yes, this is the correct fix for the improper quotation of the earlier
>> example.
>
> But why would it need quoting unless the first argument unless the
> command line is quoted and might have a space
Eric Blake sent the following at Tuesday, December 17, 2013 11:08 PM
>On 12/17/2013 08:02 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
>> Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following
>> error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I
>> didn't notice.) Note
On 12/17/2013 08:02 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Today, a script that I use every day stated giving me the following
> error message. (I grant that it might have started earlier and I
> didn't notice.) Note that although it gave the error message, the
> script seems to still hav
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