[abcde] Re: Bug#64033: wrong ticks in config-variable assignment

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 05:40:53PM +0200, Arthur Korn wrote:
> Package: abcde
> Version: 1.0.1.1-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /etc/abcde.conf
> 
> Hello.
> 
> In /etc/abcde.conf, the assignments for $OUTPUTDIR and $WAVOUTPUTDIR
> use backticks, and thus broke when I wanted it to this:
> $OUTPUTDIR=`${HOME}/snd`
> $WAVOUTPUTDIR=`${HOME}/tmp`
> 
> Using double-quotes (") instead worked for me (and I think it is the proper way
> to do this).

Use what the shell would want you to use.

Using backticks is fine for the default setting, which is `pwd`. Using
double-quotes is *not* fine for this default setting.

If you don't want to run a command like the pwd command (print working
directory) then don't use backticks.

`${HOME}/snd` would attempt to run /home/akorn/snd (or whatever your home
directory is) and since that isn't a command, abcde will indeed break.

There are quite a number of bugs in abcde but this isn't one of them. :)
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste
for it." -- Richard Stallman

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