Re: weird echo behaviour...

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 05:21:54PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> 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

Yes, that is the way how the shell works, see e.g. "Word Splitting" chapter
in the bash(1) manpage.

Just repeat the test after "set -x" and you'll notice the difference.


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