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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:32:48 +0100
From: Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado <raul@viadomus.com>
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    Hi Zefram :))

    Thanks a lot for your answer, fast and good :))

>There are several solutions.  If you want to divide up a scalar value
>in that way, add an "=" after the "$", so

    This will do, since none of my binaries (AFAIK) use $PAGER thru
the shell...

>You can also set the option SH_WORD_SPLIT, which does this
>automatically for all variable substitutions, but this is a bad
>idea, because it's often useful to retain spaces in a variable
>expansion.

    Anyway, I need bash compatibility, so this is not a bad idea too.

    I'll try the second solution first.

    Thanks a lot again :))

    Raúl