On Tue, 2015-05-19 at 22:28 +0300, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > I'm asking because in a Unix shell (and in cmd.exe too, FWIW) double > quotes do not nest so I'm having hard time trying to understand > what's this line supposed to do.
In a POSIX shell, quotes do properly nest if they're inside `` or $(...) because those are invoking a new process in a new shell: $ echo hi > "foo bar" $ echo "$(cat "foo bar")" hi $ echo "`cat "foo bar"`" hi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
