Nasty shell bug

utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo
Mon Oct 25 18:13:31 AEST 1982


Surrounding things with a pair of " causes them to be treated
as a single argument in the Bourne Shell.  (I am not familiar
with the C-Shell.)  So if you were to use 
echo "$PS1"
rather than
echo $PS1
any trailing blanks would be preserved.

Geo Swan
Integrated Studies
University of Waterloo



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