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From: ericblake AT comcast DOT net (Eric Blake)
To: yann DOT dubost AT capgemini DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Yann Dubost <yann DOT dubost AT capgemini DOT com>
Subject: Re: eval function not working anymore !?
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:49:27 +0000
Message-Id: <091520051549.19650.43299806000EE1F500004CC222007601800A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>

> Option 1: Fix your shell script to use POSIX compliant expressions
> (basically, $" is non-portable in the first level of evaluation, so
> quote the $ so that the second level of evaluation will see the
> desired $DOM1_MODULES).  Any of the following properly quotes
> the leading $ (and there are other ways, too):
> eval MODULES=\$"${domain}_MODULES"
> eval MODULES="\$${domain}_MODULES"
> eval MODULES='$'"${domain}"_MODULES
> 
> Option 2: Disable the bash extension in your script:
> shopt -u extquote

Correction - 'man bash' states that extquote only affects
$"" inside of ${}, not eval.  So you will have to use option 1.

--
Eric Blake



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