"Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wenn you now do echo $e, you should get the following output:
Try echo "$e". Then read about Word Splitting in the Bash manual.
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Try echo "$e". Then read about Word Splitting in the Bash manual.
Good point. Since no word splitting occurs within "$e", it is
expanded to a string containing newlines:
$ echo $e # Expansion without quotes -> word splitting
x sub: f
$ echo "$e" # Expansion with quotes -> no word splittin
While hunting a bug in my script, I stumbled over an effect involving
the usage of
backquote and grep, which completely puzzles me. To reproduce the
effect, execute
first the following four commands, which create a small directory tree
in your
working directory and set the bash variable 'e':
