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- Autzoo.1329
- net.bugs.v7
- utcsrgv!utzoo!henry
- Tue Feb 2 22:05:50 1982
- shell [mis?]feature
- The shell sometimes ``knows'' characters are in quotes and should not
- be interpreted as metacharacters etc.; this is a win in many situations
- but loses sometimes:
-
- set `echo "'a b'" "'c d'"`
-
- yields positional parameters with imbedded quotes. This is the heart
- of the problem in getting the getopt(1) I sent out a little while ago
- to cope properly with arguments with embedded metacharacters etc.
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