[gllug] echo

[Steve Nelson]

Richard wrote:

> The point is that what you type isn't what gets sent to echo.  The
> shell performs expansion *before* passing the command-line onto the
> command....

Ah yes, of course.

Hence why it must be escaped or quoted.  Speaking of which, am I
correct in remembering that if one quotes with " ", $ ' and \ retain
their meaning, whereas all characters inside a pair of single quotes
are assumed to have their literal value?

S.
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