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From: megabyte@chinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Quotiing * in Bourne shell question
Message-ID: <1040@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 12:48:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1040
Posted: Wed May 20 12:48:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 02:28:27 EDT
Reply-To: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Dr. Megabyte)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: Using variables set to * on command line

I have looked in the manuals and this still puzzles me.  So.. since this
is unix.questions...

I want to set a shell variable equal to an asterix (*). Then use that
variable in seetting another shell variable and then finally use the 
second variable as a command line with the asterix NOT being expanded,
I want it passed to the program.  Here is an example:


#!/bin/sh

area="*"						# set area to *
cmdline="acego -q ovt.rpt $area" 			# run report
$cmdline | lp -dDS180 					# to lp in 1215
exit 0							# Bye-bye

See, I want the acego program to see an asterix on the command
line, not all the files in the curreent directory.  The area variable
me be set to other things other than an asterix earlier in the shell script,
and the output may go to other printers.  This is just a stripped down
version of the problem.

Any way to do this?  Everthing I have tried either sends all the file names
to acego or sends something like "*" (3 characters) to it. Ideas?
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