Re: $(<...) fails with nested quoting.

2020-08-17 Thread Ilkka Virta
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 3:53 PM Steven McBride wrote: > 'echo "$(<\"filename\")"' fails with No such file or directory > Quotes inside $() are independent from the ones outside. If you escape them, you get literal quotes as part of the filename. $ echo hello > '"filename"' $ echo

Re: $(<...) fails with nested quoting.

2020-08-17 Thread
On 17/08/2020 04:03, Steven McBride wrote: Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'

$(<...) fails with nested quoting.

2020-08-17 Thread Steven McBride
Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale'