On Feb 23, 8:41 pm, Allen Halsey <allenhal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes: > > > > > But you missed that: > > > $(date +'%Y-%m-%d') > > > is an entire word (basically, an unquoted $ character consumes until the > > end of the shell substitution, command substitution, or arithmetic > > substitution, and that entire scan becomes part of the current word being > > parsed). > > Thank you Eric and Chris. > > The link to the POSIX section on Token Recognition really helped my > understanding. > > I don't think I missed anything in the Bash Reference Manual that > explains this. > > Allen
>From the Bash info-file: "The order of expansions is: brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter, variable, and arithmetic expansion and command substitution (done in a left-to-right fashion), word splitting, and filename expansion." So command substitution is performed before word splitting.
