Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!aurora!labrea!decwrl!decvax!savax!long
From: long@savax.UUCP (David Long)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Please -- no back-quotes in maps
Summary: Argument expansion in here-text
Message-ID: <690@savax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 19:23:07 GMT
References: <3720006@nucsrl.UUCP> <39622@sun.uucp>
Organization: Sanders Associates Inc., Nashua, NH
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In article <39622@sun.uucp>, david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo) writes:
> In article <3720006@nucsrl.UUCP> gore@nucsrl.UUCP (Jacob Gore) writes:
> >A recent posting of u.usa.co.1, in shar form, failed when run through /bin/sh,
> >becuase there were some back-quotes (`) in the comments.  Please avoid those.
> No, it failed because of an unquoted here document terminator.  ...

It did indeed fail because of back-quotes. Constructors of shar files should
be aware that dollar-signs and back-quotes are interpretted in here-text as
they would be in any shell command.
-- 
David Long  ...decvax!savax!long  (Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH)