On 19. feb 2005, at 23:15, Sune Foldager wrote:
Oh.. we can't. The quotes are taken as part of the name, since bash doesn't do any further processing on expanded variables.
Actually, bash is quite inconsistent. I _does_ split up text in expanded variables as normal, but doesn't allow quoting or escaping :-(. So basically it's impossible to include a space in a variable that should not be an argument boundary. Nice :-/.