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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers To quote or not Post 302844145 by Corona688 on Friday 16th of August 2013 04:37:03 PM
Old 08-16-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by g.j.huebschman
I can also see that I don't understand the difference between the shell expanding the wildcards and the command expanding the wildcards.
When in doubt, see what it does when you feed it into echo. If anything gets changed, it's the shell that's doing it, not echo, because echo is stupid and dumb and translates nothing.

Code:
$ touch abcdefg # Create empty file
$ echo a* # Shell turns a* into abcdefg BEFORE echo is run
abcdefg

$ echo "a*" # Quotes prevent the shell from changing it
a*

$ rm abcdefg # Remove file, so its no longer found
$ echo a* # Since there are no files beginning with a, the shell leaves it as a*
a*

$


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