-----Original Message----- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Peter,
Arguments enclosed in quotes, either double or single, are passed as a single argument to the shell script. I'm not sure about Win CMD systems, but I believe that they do the same thing.
Bam! This was the description I was looking for :) My initial wording was a bit off, just couldn't get it expressed right (could 've known that it would be more the OS than the shell script that does the actual interpreting)
Andreas,
It is in fact the shell, because your CLI system interface is also the shell. It interprets the arguments, then forks another shell which execs the binary command or interprets the shell script. As far as I know, CMD works the same way.
Peter -- Peter B. West <http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/resume.html>
