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From: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Make:defining macros with filenames that have '$' in them
Message-ID: <1814@root44.co.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 90 13:01:37 GMT
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Reply-To: gwc@root.co.uk (Geoff Clare)
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DeadHead@cup.portal.com (Bruce M Ong) writes:
|I have to include a file with '$' in its name (i.e. abc.$cf) in
|a macro definition in Make.

gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
|Did you try $$ ?

dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes:
| this isn't a simple question.  After all,
|once Make tries to do anything with the filename, it uses the shell
|('$' is in the list of characters that force the use of sh), which
|will eat the $.

Actually this IS a very simple question.  Just make sure the $ is quoted
when it is passed to the shell: abc.'$$'cf or 'abc.$$cf' does the trick.
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