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From: drazen@VLSI.CALTECH.EDU (Drazen Borkovic)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Quoting bug
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Date: 11 Jul 89 02:08:09 GMT
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Bash version 1.02

Strings quoted with double quotes (") are effectively
null strings.

$ echo 'abcd'
abcd
$ echo abcd
abcd
$ echo "abcd"

$ P='a b'
$ echo $P
a b
$ echo "$P"

$ 

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Hope this helps.

Drazen Borkovic, Caltech 256-80, Pasadena CA 91125      
e-mail: drazen@vlsi.caltech.edu