Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any is fine, there is no word splitting or wildcard expansion in
> shell variable assignments.

$ foo="bar   *   baz"
$ wombat=$foo
$ echo $wombat
bar somedir somefile baz


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