Re: help, help scripting masters

* David J. Weller-Fahy <dave-lists-aklug@weller-fahy.com> [2004-03-22 10:26 -0900]:
> > What's the difference between $VAR and ${VAR}?
>
> After all that, here's how I understand it: If you leave out the braces
> nothing untoward is *supposed* to happen. However, I've had some bad
> luck with weird file names (and within file names) when not using the
> braces. That's my reasoning behind it, anyway. ;]

And, after reading all that again, I just realized that my problems (way
back when) were probably caused by the lack of double quotes, not by the
lack of braces. So it's very likely that the use of braces is a red
herring in this case.

Habits, they're damned hard to justify sometimes. ;]

Regards,

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dave [ please don't CC me ]
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