`;` problems in *sh

[David Fenyes]

In article <1991Apr15.212340.13745 at agate.berkeley.edu> smoot at cs.berkeley.edu writes:
>Why does:
>csh> `echo "ls ; ls"` 
>fail?  
>(Generates:
>     ; not found
>     ls not found
>)
>

The string returned by `` is interpreted as:

"ls" ";" "ls".  This makes ';' and 'ls' args to  /bin/ls.

Variable and command substitution should work within the quotes,
but shell special characters will not be recognized.

try

eval `echo "ls ; ls"`

and it will work as you desire.

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David Fenyes                                 dfenyes at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu
University of Texas Medical School           Houston, Texas