On 6/17/16 6:21 AM, Dean Wakerley wrote: > Bash Version: 4.3 > Patch Level: 42 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The expansion of a variable containing spaces splits on all spaces > including escaped/backslashed space.
This analysis isn't correct, and the description above describes the correct behavior. A backslash in the expansion of a variable does not have any special meaning to word splitting. Backslashes are special to the shell parser; if you want to have them interpreted, you need to run the text through the parser. This is usually accomplished using `eval'. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/