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09-28-2006

mikie

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Stripped argument

Hi there

Has anyone seen this behaviour before, and if so, do they know why this happens? I am running this in BASH:

Code:

$ export DEV="/usr/sbin/diskutil list | /usr/bin/grep Master | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $6 }'"
$ echo $DEV
/usr/sbin/diskutil list | /usr/bin/grep Master | /usr/bin/awk '{ print }'

If you notice, the $6 argument has been stripped from the echo'd output.

Mike