Re: weird echo behaviour...

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > 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

   I assume the newlines are the part you don't understand.

That's it.

   Command substitution works by the shell creating a pipe to capture
   the output; when ls sees that it is writing to a pipe, it defaults
   to -1 instead of -C.

Urgh, thanks for the explanation.  I suppose this can't be changed
right?  Cause I think it is a annoying behaviour...