Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 11, 2006 08:36 PM
Actually, that's not a bug. Double-quotes are sufficient to prevent all shell expansions EXCEPT $ and `. Wildcard * is not expanded within " ". However, I tend to use ' ' for most things (unless I really want to do command or variable substitution within a string).
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Re:Bug in the examples!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 11, 2006 08:36 PMprevent all shell expansions EXCEPT $ and `.
Wildcard * is not expanded within " ".
However, I tend to use ' ' for most things (unless I really want to do
command or variable substitution within a string).
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