Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:21:19 -0800 From: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> To: Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@caf.com.tr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question Message-ID: <560f92641002142321s246f15fcg6f233b0c152e1d6a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4B78EFCC.2010102@caf.com.tr> References: <560f92641002142207w7eade79fr6a4f40ae5b92f4b9@mail.gmail.com> <4B78EFCC.2010102@caf.com.tr>
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> >From the man page: > > Command Substitution > [...] > =A0If =A0the =A0substitution =A0appears within double quotes, word splitt= ing and > =A0 =A0 =A0 pathname expansion are not performed on the results. > > In other words: > > sh-4.0$ touch "x y" > sh-4.0$ for i in `ls`; do echo "$i"; done > x > y > sh-4.0$ for i in "`ls`"; do echo "$i"; done > x y > sh-4.0$ But in the case where you're assigning the output of ls directly to a variable like this: FOO=3D`ls` vs FOO=3D"`ls`" the text assigned to FOO is the same, right? I know that later if you do for f in $FOO; do done it's different from for f in "$FOO"; do done that much is clear.
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