Re: help, help scripting masters

On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:29:43PM -0900, captgoodnight@acsalaska.net <captgoodnight@acsalaska.net> wrote:
>
> A big thank you if ya can make adjustments to that so as to
> make it work with spaces and crazies.

You know what, I can help you with this one.
The problem is in this line:

> FOLDER=`echo $2`

The phrase enclosed in `` gets replaced with the output of the
command inside. The echo command spits out what's on its command
line. So, if $2 has the value "folder with spaces" (no quotes),
then

         FOLDER=`echo $2`

will be replaced with

         FOLDER=folder with spaces

Note that the spaces are no longer quoted or otherwise included in
the string. The shell will make the assignment FOLDER=folder, and
then try to execute the "with" command.

It would probably work to say

         FOLDER="`echo $2`"

but it's easier and clearer to simply say

         FOLDER=$2

That's all that's necessary.

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Bryan Medsker
bryan@ak.net
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