Re: [Help-bash] How to understand the blank space here

[suvayu ali]

Hi Lina,

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 16:02, lina <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> $ echo \"{Those, words, are, quoted}\"
> "{Those, words, are, quoted}"
>
> I have a space after ,
>
> echo \"{Those,words,are,quoted}\"
> "Those" "words" "are" "quoted"
>

As far as I understand, since you are escaping the double quotes, brace
expansion happens in the second case. Whereas in the first case the
whole string is being echoed as is.

> Just wonder why the space there changed things,
>

I believe its the brace expansion syntax. See the "Brace Expansion"
section in `man bash`.

> Thanks with best regards,
>

Hope this helps.

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Suvayu

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