simple (and stupid) shell scripting question

[Christian Weisgerber]

Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> 
> DIRNAME="`dirname \"$0\"`"
> cd "$DIRNAME"
> SCRIPTDIR="`pwd`"
> 
> What if I got rid of extra double quotes?  Like this:
> 
> DIRNAME=`dirname \"$0\"`
> cd "$DIRNAME"
> SCRIPTDIR=`pwd`

That is perfectly fine.  Word-splitting and filename expansion are
not performed for variable assignments.  Also immune is the expression
after "case", so this is always fine:
 
  case $FOO in ...
 
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de