Re: [SLUG] mplayer and symbols in file name

From: Chad Perrin (perrin@apotheon.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 17:05:17 EDT

Eben King wrote:

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>>mplayer $song
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>>Note the 'export' and the lack of quotes around $song.
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>Also the lack of $ . Is it necessary that there be no quotes?
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I don't know a whole lot about shell scripts, but I know that in some
scripting and programming languages placing a variable in double-quotes
will cause the script/program to treat it as a string rather than a
variable name. Is that the case in bash? 

-- 
Chad Perrin

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