[Info-vax] Command Line Versus Command Line

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On 23 May 2024 21:28:23 GMT, Bob Eager wrote:

> 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)

And what happens if you have no quotes at all?

Then the variable value is subject to word-splitting, which it is not if 
it is within double quotes.

The nice thing is, that’s all there is to the variable-substitution rules. 
“Special” characters in variable values have no special significance.