Subject: Re: (s)hell quoting (s)hell
To: Stephan Schwerzmann <stephan.schwerzmann@schmid-telecom.ch>
From: Alexander Mayer <mayerale@weihenstephan.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/02/2006 14:57:56
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On 02.03.2006, at 14:15, Alexander Mayer wrote:
> "eval" is exactly what you need. The shell doesn't evaluate quotings,
> substitutions or what ever _after_ variable substitution. Only word
> splitting is performed.
I forgot to mention, there's one exception: Pathname expansion (*, ?,
[...], ...) is performed after word splitting. :-)
Alex
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