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Subject: Re: Programatically finding value of "cygdrive" prefix
References: <20050811034709 DOT 683941CC1D AT lagavulin DOT gandi DOT net>
From: "Patricia J. Hawkins" <phawkins AT connact DOT com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:59:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20050811034709.683941CC1D@lagavulin.gandi.net> (Gary R. Van  Sickle's message of "Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:47:22 -0500")
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>>>>> "GRVS" == Gary R Van Sickle <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net> writes:

Ken wrote:
>> Thanks.  One of these years I will eventually understand when
>> quotes cause an item with embedded spaces to be a single item
>> and when they get lost in processing, causing the embedded
>> space item to be multiple items.

GRVS> Well, when you do, be sure to publish a writeup in a prestegious journal so
GRVS> the rest of us can finally solve the mystery. ;-)

heh.  Try O'Reilly's _Learning The Bash Shell_.

Makes the arcane cane; straightened out my weird mish-mash of things
known, unknown, remembered, half-remembered, those understood, and the
items not understood but done by rote.  Nice examples, nice
explication of all those disparate weird but powerful features that
were inherited from historic shells.

-- 
Patricia J. Hawkins
Hawkins Internet Applications
www.hawkinsia.com


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