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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem with double quote and string variable Post 302176165 by mattemp on Monday 17th of March 2008 03:08:14 PM
Old 03-17-2008
Problem with double quote and string variable

Hello,

i have a file output.txt which contains a single line with a list of files with quotes :
"file1.ext" "file2.ext" "file3.ext"

In a shell script, I want to retrieve the line and use it as a variable in a command like :
zip archive.zip $LIST

I cant get it work. When I physically type the command zip archive.zip "file1.ext" "file2.ext" "file3.ext", it works just fine but when I try to use a string variable I get an error.

Is there a proper way to do that?
Thank you !
 

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DH_XUL-EXT(1)						     mozilla-devscripts suite						     DH_XUL-EXT(1)

NAME
dh_xul-ext - calculate XUL extension dependencies SYNOPSIS
dh_xul-ext [options] DESCRIPTION
dh_xul-ext is a helper tool for packaging XUL extensions. It calculates the supported XUL applications for the packages that contain an install.rdf file. It will set the substitution variables xpi:Depends, xpi:Recommends, xpi:Breaks, xpi:Enhances, and xpi:Provides. Unknown options will be ignored. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display a brief help message. -a, --all Expand substvars to all known XUL applications. If this parameter is not provided, substvars will only be expanded to the XUL appli- cations that are available on your distribution. Use this parameter if you want to create a package that can be installed on all Debian-based systems without recompiling. -p package, --package=package Calcalate the substvars only for the specified package. If this parameter is not provided, all package listed in the control file will be processed. -v, --verbose Print more information. ENVIRONMENT
DH_XUL_EXT_VENDOR The vendor (for example, Debian or Ubuntu) that should be used for calculating the dependencies. dpkg-vendor(1) will be used for determining the vendor if this environment variable is not set. Setting the variable to all will have the same effect than calling dh_xul-ext with --all. AUTHOR
Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> dh_xul-ext October 2011 DH_XUL-EXT(1)
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