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Re: Confused about how bash breaks input into words
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Allen Halsey |
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Re: Confused about how bash breaks input into words |
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Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:41:36 +0000 (UTC) |
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Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
> But you missed that:
>
> $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
>
> is an entire word (basically, an unquoted $ character consumes until the
> end of the shell substitution, command substitution, or arithmetic
> substitution, and that entire scan becomes part of the current word being
> parsed).
>
Thank you Eric and Chris.
The link to the POSIX section on Token Recognition really helped my
understanding.
I don't think I missed anything in the Bash Reference Manual that
explains this.
Allen