Richard Gambrell wrote:

> I'm confused.

me too :-)

> What do you want the U**X command line to actually look like, to have the
> ' ' or not?

umm...well...i'm not sure how to answer your questions exactly, but i'd say
to have the ' '.  a better answer would be to treat what's passed in with
single quote to be treated as a whole.

> Just off the cuff, I'd try adding spaces around the quotes.
>  -n ' uxb axa ' "
> or
>  -n 'uxb axa' "

that didn't work :-(

but!  i got a private reply that said to preceed the single quotes with a
slash.  that is: /'blah blah/' and that seems to work.  yet another mystery
solved, eh? :-)         - d

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