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| From: | Andreas Schwab |
| Subject: | Re: inconsistent field splitting |
| Date: | Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:46:11 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Marc Herbert <Marc.Herbert@gmail.com> writes:
> for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done
This applies word splitting on the expansion of $(echo 1 2).
> a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x"
This doesn't.
Andreas.
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