On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:39:07AM -0500, Adam Danischewski wrote: > Bash also removes the single quotes before it hits read when the single > quotes are attached to the delimiter option (-d'').
And in EVERY OTHER COMMAND. This is how quotes work. This is utterly fundamental to bash and the entire Bourne shell syntax. echo ""'a'''$''""'' Is *exactly* the same as echo a Echo has no way to know that you typed a and not "a" or a"" or 'a' or ....
