On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 01:10:11 +0100 Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> Double-quoting turns the string into a single token, and therefore > the parser sees the line as: > > token 1 = "unrar x" > token 2 = "$f" > > Without the double quoting, it's: > > token 1 = "unrar" > token 2 = "x" > token 3 = "$f" > > "unrar" is a command which can be executed (in this case with a > parameter of "x"), whereas "unrar x" is not a command. > > You can see much the same thing if you try: > > for f in one two three four > do > echo "$f" > done > > for f in "one two" "three four" > do > echo "$f" > done > > > Antony. Hallo Antony, thank you - and yes, of course, that makes perfectly sense... As I have a strict "no whitespace policy" for my filesystems, I just wouldn't ever have thought of a command to contain one - and am still somewhat dumbfounded ;-) Libre Grüße, Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
