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From: megabyte@chinet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Quotiing * in Bourne shell question
Message-ID: <1062@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 10:02:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1062
Posted: Tue May 26 10:02:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 27-May-87 03:23:19 EDT
References: <1040@chinet.UUCP> <1028@mips.UUCP>
Reply-To: megabyte@chinet.UUCP (Dr. Megabyte)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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Summary: The Answer is Found! Thanks!!

In article <1028@mips.UUCP> hitz@mips.UUCP (David Hitz) writes:
>Here are three ways.  No doubt there are more.
>
>This is probably the best:
>
>	area="*"		
>	cmdline="echo foo '$area' bar" 
>	eval $cmdline 			

Thanks to Dave, Mike and everyone else who pointed me to the eval command
as the answer to my problem.  You've all contributed to keeping the wheels
of your Federal government turning.

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