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Re: [Nmh-workers] Quoting for test commands
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Quoting for test commands |
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Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:43:22 -0800 |
On Nov 13, 2013, at 7:16 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:
> (Each "word" interpreted as an individual argument). I've played around with
> single quotes, double quotes, backslashes, and clearly I'm missing something.
> I guess it's weird interaction between parameter substitution and command
> substitution that I'm not smart enough to figure out. Help?
You are probably better building up a sequence of shell variables that you can
eventually eval. But it's hard (for me, at least) to understand the exact
semantics you want.
Could you provide a command line example followed by an argv[] list of the
arguments as you want them?
--lyndon