On 9/7/13, Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I thought, run the script in a subshell, executing the result, like:
> $ `ps1`
>
> The following 3-line script is meant to test exactly this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> PS1=': '
> echo "export PS1=$PS1"
When I change the last line to this:
echo "export PS1=\"${PS1}\""
I get:
bash: export: `"': not a valid identifier
So it appears that my current/parent shell is tokenizing the output of
`...` based on the space.
I guess, why is it tokenizing on space, yet ignoring the quotes?
TIA
Zenaan
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