[Info-vax] Command Line Versus Command Line

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

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, there’s a bit more to it than that, if you want to avoid the 
pitfalls.

Which is why it is often so much simpler just to execute a program 
directly, without going through a shell, if you don’t need the 
capabilities of the shell language as such.