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Escaping spaces in arguments to shell script

Subject: Escaping spaces in arguments to shell script
From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:32:28 -0400
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On Wednesday 26 April 2006 11:18 pm, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Moreover, read in bash(1) difference between doublequotes (") and single
> quotes (') -- contrary to other languages (Python) they are not the same
> in bash. Single quotes are much more literal, so '\ ' could mean really
> <backslash><space>. On the other hand, if you use ' ', you don't have to
> bother with escaping the space at all.
This is generally true for all the shells going back to Bourne. 
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