[dundee] Help with Bash Shell

['Gary Short']

Weird, Bash inserts the single quote near the end of the string. It's like
$data isn't all there when the quote is added and then the rest of it
"catches up". Tried putting in a sleep 1, but that made no difference so I
don't think it's a timing issue. Tried saving $data locally first so as to
try and flush any buffer, didn't work either. Weird. Linux sucks. ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dundee-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:dundee-
> bounces at lists.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of 'Gary Short'
> Sent: 31 March 2011 09:38
> To: 'Tayside Linux User Group'
> Subject: Re: [dundee] Help with Bash Shell
> 
> 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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