[mdlug] Scripting - Newlines getting clobbered?

Carl T. Miller carl at carltm.com
Thu Dec 27 15:00:29 EST 2007


Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> You all are starting to make me feel like a noob.  I may not be in the
> practice of using quotes all the time, but how many of you habitually use
> the ${VAR} convention!??!  That's what I thought!  :P

I use ${VAR} all the time.  It's the one with parentheses
that I don't use, since it is part of bash and not sh.  I
want all my scripts to work in sh.

> Vindictively,

Go get 'em Greg!

c





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