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From: jms@romana.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: how to make csh leave quotes on args
Summary: Insert quotes at invocation
Message-ID: <1245@romana.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 27 Sep 90 01:02:56 GMT
References: <3883@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <3883@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>	set string = "this is an argument"
>	foo "$string"
>does not produce the same thing as
>	foo "this is an argument"

	set string='"variable with double quote characters inside it"'
	foo "$string"
or
	set string="variable consisting of several words, no quotes"
	foo '"'"$string"'"'

Strings with different types of quotes can be concatinated together.
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