Re: [LUG] how do iI cd into a directory with spaces??

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As I understand it, its a matter of how it interpets the quoted string.

eg:
[chas@xxxxxx chas]$ FOO=moomoo
[chas@xxxxxx chas]$ echo '$FOO'
$FOO
[chas@xxxxxx chas]$ echo "$FOO"
moomoo

Alex.

On Thu, 23 May 2002, kevin bailey wrote:

> hi theo,
>
> i thought single quotes were used in shell commands
>
> #find / -name 'some_file*' -print
>
> etc.
>
> i think both double and single quotes work - what is the difference 
> between them,
>
> thanks,
>
> kev


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