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From: tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain)
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Subject: Re: Problem with sh/ksh quoting
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Date: 1 Nov 90 16:02:46 GMT
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In article <16289@s.ms.uky.edu> kherron@ms.uky.edu (Kenneth Herron) writes:
>	line="this is 'a test'"
>	...
>I *want* it to produce:
>this
>is
>a test

Nice challenge.  I finally got it, and you don't have to change things
as dramatically as other people had posted.  My method works like this:

	line='this is "a test"'
	eval set -- $line
	for word
	do
		echo $word
	done

I couldn't figure out how to get eval to work like this:

	eval for word in $line
	...

I'm gonna start calling myself "The Shell Answer-man".

Paul Chamberlain | I do NOT represent IBM.     tif@doorstop, sc30661 at ausvm6
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