how to make csh leave quotes on args

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3 total messages Started by Hunter Scales Mon, 24 Sep 1990 15:18

#1225

Author: Hunter Scales
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 15:18

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	Does anyone know how to force csh to leave the quotes on args
	and pass them down to a command?

	I.e., I need to call a command like so:

	foo "this is an argument"

	from a shell.  I have tried this:

	set string = "this is an argument"
	foo "$string"

	and I get:

	foo this is an argument

	how can I force it leave the quotes on?



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Re: how to make csh leave quotes on args

#1226

Author: karl_kleinpaste
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 18:21

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hunter@oakhill.uucp writes:
   Does anyone know how to force csh to leave the quotes on args
   and pass them down to a command?

You have to quote the quoting.  Either
	set string = '"this is an argument"'
where single-quotes preserve everything literally, or if you have a
grotesque fascination for backslashes,
	set string = \"this\ is\ an\ argument\"
where backslash forces the following character to be interpreted as an
ordinary character.

Double quotes preserve whitespace in a string and prevent globbing
(that is, wildcard matching of *?[]) but permit interpolation of
variables; single quotes cause no interpretation at all.

--karl

Re: how to make csh leave quotes on args

#1247

Author: Joe Smith
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 01:02

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In article <3883@cerberus.oakhill.UUCP> hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) writes:
>	set string = "this is an argument"
>	foo "$string"
>does not produce the same thing as
>	foo "this is an argument"

	set string='"variable with double quote characters inside it"'
	foo "$string"
or
	set string="variable consisting of several words, no quotes"
	foo '"'"$string"'"'

Strings with different types of quotes can be concatinated together.
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