Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:16 +1300, Vladimir Kosovac
wrote:
>> Mike McGrath wrote:
>>> I vote for " ' ' "
>>>
>>> -Mike
>>>
>> Yes, kind of more consistent this way...
>
> How so?
>
In a way that when su -c is used, the actual commands follow
wrapped in
double quotes (regardless of whether there is anything
within the
command string to escape), ie:
su -c "yum install foo" seems to be used
throughout the wiki, rather than
su -c 'yum install foo'
Vladimir
> I was thinking that choosing one and enforcing it would
be the
> consistency. Agreed that " '' " is probably
more widely used across the
> wiki/docs, thus making it easier to get consistency
...
>
> What I was unclear on is the way the shell interprets
the order; it
> seems to make a difference in some cases, where we'd
want to change our
> usage per the requirement:
>
> 13:49 < mmcgrath> quaid: it only really makes a
difference when you're dealing
> with variables.
> 13:50 < mmcgrath> In which case it depends on
whether you want to print $var
> or the value of $var
>
> Sounds like " '' " is the chosen way. I'll
make that clear on the
> WikiEditing page.
>
> - Karsten
>
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