gpg and double quotation mark problem

[Hauke Laging]

Am So 03.03.2013, 15:39:49 schrieb Shaoping Xie:

> I am working on a script to automate the encryption process and have encountered a strange problem:
 
> Line 1:    $GPG "$ADDITIONALOPTIONS" -r "$GPGKEY" -o "$OUTPUTFILE" -e "$INPUTFILE"
> Line 2:    $GPG $ADDITIONALOPTIONS -r $GPGKEY -o $OUTPUTFILE -e $INPUTFILE
 
This is not strange at all as you encounter the same behaviour with more or 
less all programs (i.e. this problem is not related to GnuPG at all). Usually 
a program requires so see --arg1 and --arg2 as seperate options. "" makes the 
shell pass both as one string. That usually doesn't make sense to the program 
(and even worse: if it does then it's most probably not the intended sense).


Hauke
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