[TxMt] Req: Compare docs-Diff

[Allan Odgaard]

On Feb 19, 2005, at 14:31, Sune Foldager wrote:

>> I think the problem is that the shell passes the variable as a single 
>> argument to diff. So basically in #2 it calls: diff -u "'file1' 
>> 'file2'". I am however not entirely sure about this.
> Sounds odd. Even if I do stuff like A='"foo bar"' ls $A  I get  "foo 
> not found, bar" not found. I don't think it passes it as a single 
> argument.

Nah, seems the quotes are the problem:

% tst () { echo $1; }
% foo="'this' 'is' 'a' 'test'"
% tst $foo
'this'