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weird echo behaviour...
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
weird echo behaviour... |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Sep 2004 17:21:54 +0200 |
Could someone explain the following behaviour for me? Because I sure
do not understand it.
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ touch 1 2 3 4 5
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ foo=`ls`
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo $foo
1 2 3 4 5
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo "$foo"
1
2
3
4
5
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ foo='1 2 3 4 5'
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo $foo
1 2 3 4 5
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo "$foo"
1 2 3 4 5
address@hidden:/tmp/foo$ /bin/echo --version
echo (GNU coreutils) 5.2.1