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Re: inconsistent field splitting
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Eric Blake |
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Re: inconsistent field splitting |
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Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:16:15 -0600 |
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On 08/20/2010 07:12 AM, lxnf98mm@comcast.net wrote:
>> There is a big difference between
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>> $ a=";"
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>> and
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>> $ a=;
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>> Andreas.
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> And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference
a=';' assigns the value ";" to $a. a=; assigns the empty string to a,
because the ; is the metacharacter that ends the current command.
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Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Re: inconsistent field splitting, Marc Herbert, 2010/08/19