On 1/21/19 8:14 AM, Dan Jacobson wrote: > So how am I to get > "A" > with bash?
echo ${p+\"$p\"}
> $ cat z
> p=A
> cat <<EOF
> ${p+\"$p\"}
> ${p+"$p"}
> EOF
> $ bash z
> \"A\"
> A
It's the here-document. Backslashes and double quotes in here documents are
kind of strange. This is historical sh behavior.
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