Re: {bb} semicolon problem

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 00:07, Mike Lipsey wrote:
> I've got some links embedded in some custom BB scripts that display
> information. They require semicolons in the link but BB is replacing
> the semicolon with an underscore.
>  
> How do I stop this from happening?
>  
> I upgraded from 1.9e to 1.9h and now I have this problem, I'm the
> process of going backwards now to restore my operation.

You could remove the semi-colon from the definition of CLEANCHARS
in bbdef-server.sh, but that might cause more problems than it
solves. Because it is special to the shell, you might also need
to escape or otherwise protect the semi-colon so that it doesn't
adversely affect BB.

Cheers, Phil.


 
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