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Re: Quotes expanded incorrectly from backticks
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Quotes expanded incorrectly from backticks |
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Mon, 02 Jun 2003 13:33:00 -0400 |
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Mark Thomas <mbt99@doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> Quotes in the output of a backtick command aren't expanded
> correctly.
The behavior you're seeing is the intended behavior. man bash:
Quote Removal
After the preceding expansions, all unquoted occurrences of the charac-
ters \, ', and " that did not result from one of the above expansions
are removed.
Since the quotes resulted from command substitution, they aren't
supposed to be removed.
paul