Bash Ref Manual on tokenization omits consideration of expansions

: "and keeping intact sequences of characters comprising expansions (see Shell Expansions)." Allen -- Allen Halsey

Re: Confused about how bash breaks input into words

Eric Blake redhat.com> writes: > > But you missed that: > > $(date +'%Y-%m-%d') > > is an entire word (basically, an unquoted $ character consumes until the > end of the shell substitution, command substitution, or arithmetic > substitution, and that entire scan becomes part of the current word

Confused about how bash breaks input into words

ys "The words that are not variable assignments or redirections are expanded (see Shell Expansions)." This suggests to me that a command substitution, indeed all expansions, should be treated as a single word. Can someone elucidate how bash breaks the input into words? Thank you, Allen Halsey