[dundee] Help with Bash Shell

['Gary Short']

Thanks Robert,

And that nearly works too! :-)

Echoing "'$data'" (to see what gets sent to couchdb) gives me

'{"key":"value" ... }

Note, no single quote at the end, no idea why Bash doesn't append it, it's
there in the code, but of course, without it, Couchdb returns "bad JSON".

Sigh... may have to break out Python

Thanks for your help

Cheers,
Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Robert Ladyman
> Sent: 31 March 2011 05:09
> To: Tayside Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell
> 
> Whoops - that should be:
> QUOTED_DATA="'$data'"
> 
> although the echo would work
> >
> > if that fails, use the echo trick above and put the result into a new
> >  variable
> >
> > QUOTED_DATA=`echo "'$data'"`
> >
> > note the back-ticks around the right-hand statement
> >
> 
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