On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jukka Salmi wrote:
> which shell is right?
> 
> $ cat reldate
> echo "`cut -d\\\" -f2 reldate.h`"
> 
> $ cat reldate.h
> const char *ReleaseDate = "2006-09-08";
> 
> $ ksh reldate
> reldate: no closing quote

ksh is wrong.  Anyway, I suggest that you use this instead:

	echo "$(cut -d\" -f2 reldate.h)"

or this:

	dquote='"'
	echo "$(cut -d${dquote} -f2 reldate.h)"

--apb (Alan Barrett)