l2hoption: Do the "right thing" to quote the right-hand-side of Perl
assignments. This allows '"', '$', and '@' to be included in
the values passed to parameters like --address.
diff --git a/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh b/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
index cd85ef0..88050d5 100755
--- a/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
+++ b/Doc/tools/mkhowto.sh
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@
l2hoption() {
if [ "$2" ] ; then
- echo "\$$1 = \"$2\";" >>$L2H_AUX_INIT_FILE
+ VALUE=`echo "$2" | sed 's/[$"@]/\\\\&/g'`
+ echo "\$$1 = \"$VALUE\";" >>$L2H_AUX_INIT_FILE
fi
}