SPUG: SPUG Project Ideas

[wwg at tscnet.com]

Why not just check the $OSNAME variable, and use the
appropriate syntax?  We could have two variables:
$nix_quote = a single quote, and
$win_quote = a double quote.

Then, depending on the value of $OSNAME, use the
appropriate quote variable to enclose the command.  This
is similar to what I've done for path separators,
end-of-line chars, etc.

Regards,
Bill Graham
Software Engineer
360 Powered Corp.
www.360.com

Quoting Andy Jacobs <andyj at microsoft.com>:

> On Win32 there are problems quoting command-line
programs.  The shell
> doesn't recognize single quotes as anything special,
so it thinks the
> single
> quote is just an apostrophe in the first parameter

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