Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

[Angel Tsankov]

Dave B wrote:
> Angel Tsankov wrote:
>> Eric, thanks for youy replay.  If double quotes are not that
>> portable, then how am I suppose to assign the output from some
>> command to a variable when the output contains a space?
>
> Word splitting doesn't happen on assignments, so:
>
> $ var=$(echo "foo   bar   baz")
> $ echo "$var"
> foo   bar   baz

Hmm, thanks for pointing this out.

-Angel