Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com> writes:
> for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done
This applies word splitting on the expansion of $(echo 1 2).
> a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x"
This doesn't.
Andreas.
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