Re: More fixes for missing double quotes in the shell

Justin writes:

> I agree it's not strictly necessary, but I thought I'd add them in to
> follow the generic "good programming practise" of always quoting
> variables in shell script tests.

In my purely personal opinion it's better to be aware of the possible
values of a variable than to blindly quote everything.  Somewhere you're
going to run into nested quote situations which cannot be done portably,
at which point you have to start doing that anyway.

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