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These examples are OK only when the variables will never contain user input, as globbing will still be done.

Muzer
– Muzer

2016-11-18 10:42:53 +00:00
Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 10:42
@Muzer or when you really want the user input to be globbed (I don't have an example for that to hand as usually I expect the shell to handle that before my code sees it). I might put my last sentence in bold to emphasise it.

Chris Davies
– Chris Davies

2016-11-18 10:57:05 +00:00
Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 10:57
Indeed. I guess the case where you're interactively reading in something that the user expects to be interpreted with normal shell semantics. Maybe if you're writing a shell in bash? :D (Though will that work with things like quoting filenames/escaping spaces? I haven't actually tried that) EDIT: Just tried, no it doesn't :(

Muzer
– Muzer

2016-11-18 11:09:38 +00:00
Commented Nov 18, 2016 at 11:09

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