On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 17:05 +0100, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: > Hello. See this: > > # A="echo 'hi'" > > # echo $($A) > 'hi' > > # echo 'hi' > hi > > Does anyone understand why does the first command > evals the echo but echoes the simple quotes?
$() provides a type of quoting, so it's evaluated similar to: "echo" "'hi'" which produces the observed result. -Chris -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
