On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:12:36AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun.
Variable expansion happens at the same time as command substitution, not before it. See EXPANSION in bash(1). > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/big> bar="\`yes\`" > > echo $bar > > `yes` > > I'm allways a bit overcarefull with for loops, globing and splitting. > Depending on the shell you get different behaviours. In this simple > case it seems to work out right but take the following as an example: > > (my normal shell is zsh) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% touch "a b" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% L=`find` > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a b > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a > b No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'echo "$i"'. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
