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From: rikki@macom1.UUCP (R. L. Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  Help with strings in Bourne shell
Message-ID: <4846@macom1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 14:25:20 GMT
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Organization: CENTEL Federal Systems, Reston, VA. 22091-1506
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> Jim Rudolf <rudolf@oce.orst.edu> writes:
...
>> However, I want to read from stdin (or maybe a redirected pipe), and I
>> can't get it to work no matter what strange combination of quotes I use!
>> I would like to do something like:
>>    read args
>>    for i in $args

Try:
	\"x = value\"

This worked for me -- you need to get the " passed to the for line. 

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	- Rikki	(UUCP: grebyn!macom1!rikki)