[wplug] escaping double quotes in enivronment variables

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Sat Nov 27 13:36:59 EST 2004


John Harrold <jmh17 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> Sometime in November Bill Moran assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Try
> | export RSYNC_OPTS="-av -e \"ssh -2\""
> 
> That gives me the same error. Fwiw, I belive using literals (') means you
> don't have to escape anything, but my knowledge here is pretty weak.

After exporting the variable, if you just type "export" (to list exported
variables) ... what is the value of RSYNC_OPTS?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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