On Aug 23, 2007, at 15:01, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Robert Klemme wrote: >> 2007/8/23, Daniel Aquino <mr.danielaquino / gmail.com>: >>> It's not just arrays... lots of things are a pain.. >> >> Sorry, I find that too unspecific. Bash is great for what it's >> intended to do. It's not a general purpose programming environment >> but rather a scripting engine for day to day admin tasks. Maybe you >> used the wrong hammer for your nail? :-) > > * Quoting in shell is hell. Done! require 'shellwords' -- Poor workers blame their tools. Good workers build better tools. The best workers get their tools to do the work for them. -- Syndicate Wars