On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 13:31 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: > 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.
Hmmm. Somehow obvious. Is that "type of quoting" documented somewhere? Why does it eval just the first word? :) ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo - nosp...@gmail.com otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- Q. How do you solve bus problems? A. Shoot the driver. -- 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
