On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 08:48:52AM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 12:03:31AM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 09:38:42PM +0200, John Ankarström wrote: > [...] > > And yet, it disregards quoting and will errornously expand the following > > example into multiple words instead of one: > > > > bash-4.4$ echo "$(echo a b)" > > bash-4.4$ echo a b > > Just in case it matters to anybody: > > $ echo "$(echo a b)" > a b > $ bash --version > GNU bash, version 4.2.25(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) > > Looks like something changed in between?
This is not about executing the line, it's abouty expanding using Ctrl-Alt-e -Otto