Re: zsh adding single quotes as it pleases

[Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>]

"Jerry Rocteur" wrote:
> I was running a java command line which works well when you type it into the 
> command line. As soon as you put it in a
> script it works as if the double quotes were not there .. I run it
> from a Perl script and it works well.

It sounds to me like you probably need an eval in there.

  eval <command> $line

but I can't really tell from that description.  That will handle the
quotes.  In particular, if what you are doing in Perl is something like

  system("<command> $line");

then that's pretty much what's happening.

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