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It's not echo, it's the shell. You'd see the same behavior with ls. Try touch '*' some time if you feel adventurous. :)

user
– user

2013-02-21 14:18:53 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 14:18
That's just wording as there is no difference to the 'if [ ... ]` case. [ is not a special shell command. That's different from [[ (in bash) where quoting is not necessary.

Hauke Laging
– Hauke Laging

2013-02-21 15:06:25 +00:00
Commented Feb 21, 2013 at 15:06

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