Re: [Alug]Bourne shell script for APM: help request

Dan Hatton <dan.hatton@btinternet.com> wrote:

PARAMS='--sleep-command "apm -S" -u 900'

I suspect that PARAMS='--sleep-command apm\ -S -u 900' may do what you want, but I've not got a machine using sleepd to hand to try just now. [...]

I suspect the problems result from my poor understanding of how the Bourne shell handles quotes. Any ideas, please?

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