Re: quote interpretation via vars without eval

[Greg Wooledge]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 08:57:42PM +0100, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> also two topics about that shell-escape
> i choosed this one cause it did most reasonable view-results
> i need it for flat txt display on the prompt so i awk it to this, no problem

unicorn:~$ touch $'foo\nbar'
unicorn:~$ ls --quoting-style=shell-escape "$_"
'foo'$'\n''bar'

I don't really consider that a "reasonable view-result", but to each
his own.  It could be worse, I guess.

> in contraverse of needing eval
> i learnt off this list, i dont need eval to make quotes interpreted, at
> least in var assignments, ...i build a string and declare [opts] "$str" and
> it works

Well, sure.  There are lots of places where bash does an implicit eval
on something.  You found one of many.

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