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Re: Environment variable problem


On 05/24/2010 04:00 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Willie Vu!
> 
> 
>> You are right! d2u fixes the problem.  Thanks! :clap:
> 
>>From my understanding of it, this shouldn't be a problem, as all whitespace
> characters should be stripped from value, unless explicitly quoted.

Nope.  Only whitespace characters in $IFS (which defaults to
space-tab-newline, but NOT carriage return) are stripped.  You have to
specifically request that CR be stripped, or not use CR.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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