Ash eval wierdness

[Bob Dunlop]

Most of the responses didn't spot the spaces in your parameters which
I expect is causing most of your problems.

How's this for a solution if you have the parameters in "file".

  eval $(sed -n -e 's/=\(.*\)/="\1"/p' < file)

The sed does the equivalent of your grep and individual echo/seds
echoing the parameters with quotes to be evaluated in the parent shell.


Of course " in the file will cause problems and a whole host of other
things could lead to nasty security holes, but then you know that.
-- 
        Bob Dunlop