On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com> writes:
Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial
stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
thus confusing) quoting.
There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words, which
doesn't make any sense in an assignment.
Quoting makes a difference in some places but no difference in other
places (because of some kind of "implicit quoting").
There is a big difference between
$ a=";"
and
$ a=;
Andreas.
And for the VERY ignorant what is the difference
Richard
