On 2020-09-19 21:47, Dan Kegel wrote:
>
> export PUB="$(base64 < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub)"
> make
>
> where Makefile is
>
> all:
> echo "${PUB}"
>
> and it worked fine on Mac, despite PUB being a multiline string.
>
> On Ubuntu (even with the same version of gnu make),
> it breaks terribly, complaining about a missing quote
> on the end of the first line of the string. Evidently this is not portable.
[...]
> I couldn't tell why they worked on the mac. Any guesses?
Just a guess--If $PUB is exported before running make, in an
interactive shell, then is that shell zsh by default for mac,
but bash for ubuntu?
