Dave you need to quote your variables ie. var="*pacman*"; echo "$var" so printf "Search: %s\n" $myvar should read printf "Search: %s\n" "$myvar" On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:39 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
On 08/13/2010 01:32 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 08/13/2010 01:15 AM, mike rosset wrote:
quote command arguments like you would normally do.
ie. $ myscript "*pacman*"
Nope:
01:32 nirvana:~/scr/arch/tmp> ./tst.sh "pacman*" Search: pacman-foo
Mike,
I'm sorry, that was a short answer. My thoughts in this situation were that partial or soft-quoting "" would not offer any additional protection that full or hard-quoting '' did not already provide. From ABS:
partial quoting [double quote]. "STRING" preserves (from interpretation) most of the special characters within STRING.
full quoting [single quote]. 'STRING' preserves all special characters within STRING. This is a stronger form of quoting than "STRING".
I'd run across this a couple of days ago on the pacman -Ss reformat script work.
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