Dave B wrote: > Angel Tsankov wrote: >> Eric, thanks for youy replay. If double quotes are not that >> portable, then how am I suppose to assign the output from some >> command to a variable when the output contains a space? > > Word splitting doesn't happen on assignments, so: > > $ var=$(echo "foo bar baz") > $ echo "$var" > foo bar baz
Hmm, thanks for pointing this out. -Angel
