Bourne Shell Variable Assignment 1

[Michael42]

Hello,

In using the Bourne shell on a Solaris 8 system I was never really sure if I needed to place a string variables in quotes as if there a no spaces it always seems to work for me.

These work identically for me:

FILE=/mypath/myfile.txt

FILE="/mypath/myfile.txt"

If there are no spaces are there any good reasons to use quotes on string variable assignment in Bourne shell scripts?

Thanks,

Michael42

 

[Annihilannic]

No, there's no need. However there was another discussion in this forum pointing out that scripts run more efficiently if constants are surrounded in single quotes as the shell doesn't attempt to evaluate them for variables, etc. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it!

Annihilannic.

 

[Michael42]

>> No, there's no need.

Thanks for confirming sir.