Hello list,
maybe something for old stagers.
Bash (and POSIX, and Korn, ...) do field/word splitting on the result of
arithmetic expansions. This is fine, the behaviour per se is not a
problem at all.
However, I wonder about the original thought behind it: Is there a
specific reason or need
On 12/28/10 2:50 PM, Jan Schampera wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> maybe something for old stagers.
>
> Bash (and POSIX, and Korn, ...) do field/word splitting on the result of
> arithmetic expansions. This is fine, the behaviour per se is not a problem
> at all.
>
> However, I wonder about the origina
I wonder if anybody knows how to escape a single quote character by
/bin/sh or bash?
echo 'ppp\'qqq''
ppp\qqq
Please look at the above example and the result.
Regards
On 29.12.2010 08:28, ali hagigat wrote:
I wonder if anybody knows how to escape a single quote character by
/bin/sh or bash?
echo 'ppp\'qqq''
ppp\qqq
Please look at the above example and the result.
Regards
from man bash:
Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the literal valu
