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From: benson@seagoon.ksr.com (Benson Margulies)
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Subject: Bourne shell dosen't seem to rescan for quotes in variables.
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 22:49:34 EDT
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In an sh script --

   FOO="my_command -P\"big dog\""
   exec $FOO

my_command gets called with argv[1] = -P"big and
argv[2] = dog"

whereas I want it to be called with one argument.

The only work-around I found is to use

  sh -c $FOO

I am running SunOS 3.4.

Questions: is this universal? is this correct? is there a better
avoidance?

Benson I. Margulies                         Kendall Square Research Corp.
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