Bernd Eggink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Word splitting and filename expansion are not performed on the words > between the `[[' and `]]'; tilde expansion, parameter and variable > expansion, arithmetic expansion, command substitution, process > substitution, _and quote removal_ are performed."
Quote removal just means that the quotes are not part of the value. It does not say anything about how the value is to be interpreted. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."