[net.unix] How to store a blank in a /bin/sh variable? solution found

dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) (07/26/84)

In article <4962@utcsrgv.UUCP> dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) writes:
~| I am using sh, and type from the terminal
~| 	rn -foo -bar -bletch "-F~| "
~| 
~| and this works fine....
~| Problem: how do I store the above string in shell variable R in
~| my .profile, so I can type $R and invoke rn with the flags I want?

What I needed was:
R='eval rn -foo -bar -bletch "-F~| "'

which works (as you can see above). Thanks to utai!rayan for the
solution. I'll cancel the original article but post this, since I
think the answer is of some interest to people.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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