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  Build an eDoc Reader for Your iPod, Part 3
Subject:   You may want to add quotes to that shell script...
Date:   2005-01-07 22:42:38
From:   philippec
Great article! But in prelude.sh, you may want to add quotes to these lines:


cmd="PodReader"


export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$here/../Resources/log4j-1.2.8.jar"

export CLASSPATH="$CLASSPATH:$here/../Resources/PDFBox-0.6.7a.jar"


exec "$here/$cmd"


I named my program "Pod Reader", but any non-standard character in your path will cause it to fail.
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  • Matthew Russell photo You may want to add quotes to that shell script...
    2005-01-08 00:41:16  Matthew Russell | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    That is an excellent point. It definitely is a good habit to use those double quotes (something I'm guilty of not always doing), and this is an excellent example of why that's so.

    I have a habit of not using spaces or nonstandard characters in paths or filenames, so I didn't use the double quotes. As you pointed out, however, that can possibly lead to portability or maintenance problems.

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