Originally Posted by Chubler_XL

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These escaped quotes are simply to protect them from the shell the actual argument values that will react the bitcoin-cli process will be

Originally Posted by Chubler_XL

The reason for this is that quote removal only occurs on the original input words, not the result of expansions. To demonstrate:

Code:

$ echo "Hello, world"
Hello, world
$ VAR='echo "Hello, world"'
$ $VAR
"Hello, world"

It's also worth noting that quote matching is done before any expansion, for example:

Code:

$ QT='"'
$ echo "$QT"
"
$ echo $QT
"

If you save this code a pparam(or make it a function in your script) you can use it to debug what the shell is doing to your parameters before they are passed on to scripts/functions:

Code:

for((i=1;i<=${#};i++))
do
   echo Param $i: ${!i}
done

Code:

$ VAR='"one" "two"'
$ ./pparam $VAR
Param 1: "one"
Param 2: "two"
$ ./pparam "$VAR"
Param 1: "one" "two"
$ ./pparam "one" "two"
Param 1: one
Param 2: two

that quote removal only occurs on the original input words, not the result of expansions.

It's also worth noting that quote matching is done before any expansion, for example: