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Which way do you expand variables? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by [M] to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago

I don't think this is correct. Consider what you see from using sh -c -- 'var="a " && printf "%s\n" "${var}"-z'

If "${var}"-z resulted in two arguments instead of one, I'd see "a" and "-z" on different lines, but I see them on the same line, which means they are treated as a single argument.

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