Re: Inconsistent quote and escape handling in substitution part of parameter expansions.

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/28/12 5:49 PM, John Kearney wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 11:44 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> echo "$(echo '$bar')"
> 
> actually these both output the same in bash
> echo "$(echo '$bar')"
> echo $(echo '$bar')

Sure: the outer quotes don't affect the command between the parens.  Not
only is it a new quoting context, it's a new parsing context entirely.
Parameter substitutions don't work like that.

Chet
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