Help with strings in Bourne shell

[R. L. Welsh]

> Jim Rudolf <rudolf at oce.orst.edu> writes:
...
>> However, I want to read from stdin (or maybe a redirected pipe), and I
>> can't get it to work no matter what strange combination of quotes I use!
>> I would like to do something like:
>>    read args
>>    for i in $args

Try:
	\"x = value\"

This worked for me -- you need to get the " passed to the for line. 

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