[Bradford] bash hell , removing " from a strings
Dick Thomas
xpd259 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 28 22:34:08 UTC 2009
I'm writing a bash script and i'm stuck
the out put of a dialog menu is
echo $select
"foo" "bar" "lemon" cheese"
while I need
$foo $bar $lemon $cheese
to reuse them as strings later in the script
and very new to bash scripting and i've no idea how to do this
any help would be fantastic
Dick
<code>
dialog --backtitle "Enable / Disable Tags" \
--no-cancel --title "CHECKLIST BOX" \
--checklist "Hi, blah blah fill me in" 25 61 15 \
"$CITY" "$CITY_TAG" off \
"$COPYRIGHT" "$COPYRIGHT_TAG" off \
"$Orange" "$orange_tag" off \
"$Chicken" "$chicken_tag" off \
"$Cat" "$CAT_TAG" off\
"$Fish" "$FISH_TAG" off \
"$Lemon" "$LEMON_TAG" on 2> $tempfile2
retval=$?
enable=`cat $tempfile2`
echo $enable
</code>
"foo" "bar" "lemon" "poo-sticks"
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