[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #4924] (grass) missing quoted path vars in init.sh

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> cc grass-dev
> 
> http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=4924
> 
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:00:44PM -0500, William Kyngesburye wrote:
> > One more I found - line 843.  I quoted the echoed PROMPT_COMMAND for  
> > the bash shell to get it to work:
> > 
> >     echo "PROMPT_COMMAND='$GISBASE/etc/prompt.sh'" >> "$bashrc"
> > 
> > I had to use single-quotes to get it to work.  I tried escaped double- 
> > quotes but I still got path splitting errors.  I decided not to  
> > commit this myself, in case the single quotes cause other problems  
> > (that fine detail is beyond my shell knowledge).
> 
> Any opinions on this?

bash parses $PROMPT_COMMAND, so you need yet another level of quoting.

I suspect that you want:

	echo PROMPT_COMMAND="\''$GISBASE/etc/prompt.sh'\'"

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>