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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] fiend -name with and without quotes
Date: Friday, 11 Sep 2020, 09:17:33


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > The solution fiend seems to run properly only when the -name has quotes
    > around it. Are we supposed to expect quotes around the argument for -name,
    > and if there aren't quotes, is all we have to do exit gracefully to get
    > points for a hypothetical test cases?

As you can verify by running echo (which merely prints
its arguments), bash removes all unescaped quotes before
passing command-line arguments to an executable.

--Stan-
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