Ha! The difference is the command base64 defaults to no wrapping on Mac OS, but wrapping on Linux.
Mystery solved! I was looking under the wrong rock :-) - Dan On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 1:40 AM Greg Chicares <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > > >
