On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >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`
Here, ls knows it is not outputting to a terminal, so implies the "-1" option. >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo $foo >1 2 3 4 5 Here the shell splits up the arguments and /bin/echo sees argc==5 (or it it 6 to include argv[0]?). >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo "$foo" >1 >2 >3 >4 >5 Here the shell passes the single argument and /bin/echo sees argc==1. >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/foo$ 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 These shouldn't cause any surprises, I hope. Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
