Re: unwanted expansion of variable with nested strings

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 04 May 2006 10:29, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> In article <address@hidden> you write:
> >On Thursday 04 May 2006 00:44, Paul Jarc wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > so if i quote ${foo} like so:
> >> > $ gawk 'BEGIN {foo="'"${foo}"'"}'
> >> > it'll work in this case, but then fail if foo contains newlines:
> >> > foo="a
> >> > b
> >> > c"
> >>
> >> What do you mean by "fail"?  What do you want to happen in this case?
> >
> >i meant gawk hates it ... not bash
>
> Why are you surprised?

who said i was surprised ?  i was making note of the issues i encountered wrt 
to bash by using gawk as an example ... i never said gawk was doing anything 
wrong
-mike