Re: The /tmp and modules_install saga

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de)
09 Oct 1998 11:04:26 +0200


"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> writes:

|> > # listed in $d. BTW there's two syntactic mistakes here. It should be
|> > #
|> > # ALLMODS="`echo $$ALLMODS | sed -e 's/'$$m'//'`"; \
|> >
|> >
|> > Hmmm. It worked for me :) Doesn't mean its correct, just that it worked :)
|>
|> Without the quotes, it would expand to
|>
|> ALLMODES=a.o b.o c.o ...
|>
|> which means: (1) set environment variable ALLMODES to a.o, (2) execute
|> command b.o with args c.o ...

Wrong. Variable assignments aren't subject to word splitting.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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