Autzoo.1329
net.bugs.v7
utcsrgv!utzoo!henry
Tue Feb  2 22:05:50 1982
shell [mis?]feature
The shell sometimes ``knows'' characters are in quotes and should not
be interpreted as metacharacters etc.;  this is a win in many situations
but loses sometimes:

	set `echo "'a b'" "'c d'"`

yields positional parameters with imbedded quotes.  This is the heart
of the problem in getting the getopt(1) I sent out a little while ago
to cope properly with arguments with embedded metacharacters etc.

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