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    This document discusses quoting in Bash scripting. Quoting means bracketing a string in quotes to protect special characters from reinterpretation or expansion by the shell. Certain programs reinterpret quoted strings, allowing parameters to be expanded. Quoting suppresses echo's appetite for newlines. Quoting variables protects them from interpretation by the shell but still allows programs to expand them.

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    Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide:

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    Chapter 5. Quoting
    Table of Contents
    5.1. Quoting Variables (quotingvar.html)
    5.2. Escaping (escapingsection.html)

    Quoting means just that, bracketing a string in quotes. This has the effect of
    protecting special characters (special-chars.html#SCHARLIST1) in the string from
    reinterpretation or expansion by the shell or shell script. (A character is "special" if it
    has an interpretation other than its literal meaning. For example, the asterisk *
    (special-chars.html#ASTERISKREF) represents a wild card character in globbing
    (globbingref.html) and Regular Expressions (regexp.html#REGEXREF)).

    bash$ ls -l [Vv]*
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 bozo bozo 324 Apr 2 15:05 VIEWDATA.BAT
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 bozo bozo 507 May 4 14:25 vartrace.sh
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 bozo bozo 539 Apr 14 17:11 viewdata.sh

    bash$ ls -l '[Vv]*'
    ls: [Vv]*: No such file or directory

    In everyday speech or writing, when we "quote" a phrase, we set it apart and give it special
    meaning. In a Bash script, when we quote a string, we set it apart and protect its literal meaning.

    Certain programs and utilities reinterpret or expand special characters in a quoted


    string. An important use of quoting is protecting a command-line parameter from the
    shell, but still letting the calling program expand it.

    bash$ grep '[Ff]irst' *.txt


    file1.txt:This is the first line of file1.txt.
    file2.txt:This is the First line of file2.txt.

    Note that the unquoted grep [Ff]irst *.txt works under the Bash shell. [1]
    Quoting can also suppress echo's (internal.html#ECHOREF) "appetite" for newlines.
    bash$ echo $(ls -l)
    total 8 -rw-rw-r-- 1 bo bo 13 Aug 21 12:57 t.sh -rw-rw-r-- 1 bo bo 78 Aug 21 12:57 u.sh

    bash$ echo "$(ls -l)"


    total 8
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 bo bo 13 Aug 21 12:57 t.sh
    -rw-rw-r-- 1 bo bo 78 Aug 21 12:57 u.sh

    Notes
    [1] Unless there is a le named first in the current working directory. Yet
    (quoting.html#AEN2609)another reason to quote. (Thank you, Harald Koenig, for pointing this
    out.

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