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Subject: Re: simple (and stupid) shell scripting question
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> >From the man page:
>
> Command Substitution
> [...]
> =A0If =A0the =A0substitution =A0appears within double quotes, word splitt=
ing and
> =A0 =A0 =A0 pathname expansion are not performed on the results.
>
> In other words:
>
> sh-4.0$ touch "x y"
> sh-4.0$ for i in `ls`; do echo "$i"; done
> x
> y
> sh-4.0$ for i in "`ls`"; do echo "$i"; done
> x y
> sh-4.0$

But in the case where you're assigning the output of ls directly to a
variable like this:

FOO=3D`ls`

vs

FOO=3D"`ls`"

the text assigned to FOO is the same, right?

I know that later if you do

for f in $FOO; do
done

it's different from

for f in "$FOO"; do
done

that much is clear.