[Info-vax] Command Line Versus Command Line

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 23 May 2024 18:37:35 +0100, chrisq wrote:

> Unix shell just uses single quotes to enclose spaced arguments, which
> are then removed by the shell, before storing the argument as pointer to
> a null terminated array of char. Neat, clean and simple.

Actually, single quotes OR double quotes.

The difference is that single quotes prevent further interpretation of the 
arguments, and double quotes don't (so that you can have shell variables 
in there, for instance)