[Linux-disciples] echo

[Chung-chieh Shan]

On 2006-01-11T14:32:09-0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:57:23PM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > 'Design rationale'.
> I guess the idea is just that single quotes are super-strict
> quotes. Not only are variables not interpolated inside of
> single quotes, but absolutely nothing is a metacharacter
> inside. See, e.g.,
> http://www.faqs.org/docs/abs/HTML/quoting.html

Yeah, I'm not sure if there's an explanation as to why it is a good idea
to have one kind of single quotes and not the other.

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