Re: Confused about how bash breaks input into words

[Allen Halsey]

Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
> But you missed that:
> 
> $(date +'%Y-%m-%d')
> 
> is an entire word (basically, an unquoted $ character consumes until the
> end of the shell substitution, command substitution, or arithmetic
> substitution, and that entire scan becomes part of the current word being
> parsed).
> 

Thank you Eric and Chris.

The link to the POSIX section on Token Recognition really helped my 
understanding.

I don't think I missed anything in the Bash Reference Manual that 
explains this.

Allen