Could someone explain the following behaviour for me? Because I sure do not understand it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ touch 1 2 3 4 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ foo=`ls` [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo $foo 1 2 3 4 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo "$foo" 1 2 3 4 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ foo='1 2 3 4 5' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo $foo 1 2 3 4 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo "$foo" 1 2 3 4 5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo --version echo (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
