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Re: [Help-bash] help
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: [Help-bash] help |
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Mon, 7 Mar 2016 08:13:43 -0500 |
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On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 11:43:23PM -0500, Dave Rutherford wrote:
> > time=$1
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> You should quote "$1" there, because you should almost
> always quote when something is user-supplied.
When writing a simple assignment like this, the right hand side does
not need to be quoted. There won't be any word splitting or filename
expansions here. This is a special case.
Quoting won't hurt, though.