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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers To quote or not Post 302844091 by g.j.huebschman on Friday 16th of August 2013 11:18:22 AM
Old 08-16-2013
Thanks!
...and sorry about not using the code tag in my post.

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
If you leave a pattern unquoted it will work too, unless there happens to be one or more files in the current directory that match that pattern (the shell will then expand the pattern first), which can lead to surprising results, so it is a good habit to quote those patterns..
My takeaway is to use quotes.
I can also see that I don't understand the difference between the shell expanding the wildcards and the command expanding the wildcards. I'll go back and read again. I'll try some test file names to see how things work.

(Now I see that there is a "Thanks" button.)
 

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lessecho

LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems.

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the lessecho command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But  any  argument  containing  spaces  is  enclosed	in
       quotes.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options are included below.

       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Less was written by  Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com>

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