[TriLUG] bash cmd line processing question

[Paul D. Boyle]

AL Koscielny wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 14 February 2002 13:36, you wrote:
> > The (') is one of the ways to quote strings in shells, and I have
> > never really understood the difference between " and '.
> 
> The shell ignores any text between single quotes ''.
> The shell ignores most of the text between double quotes "" except that $, `, 
> and \ are interpreted.  
> 
> An example is
> FOO=bar
> echo '$FOO'
> $FOO
> echo "$FOO"
> bar

Ah, thank-you!  I thought it was the other way around; no wonder
my adventures in scripting were always at best 'iffy'.  Right now,
I feel like I have just understood one the mysteries of the Universe!
Thanks again!

Paul





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