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Removing the quote distinction?
Removing the quote distinction?
Posted Mar 9, 2008 20:30 UTC (Sun) by Mysingen (guest, #50982)In reply to: Removing the quote distinction? by smeg4brains
Parent article: Fish - The friendly interactive shell
Why not just escape the variables instead? set a Hello set b '\$a is $a' set a Goodbye echo $b should print "$a is Hello" It is just a hassle to keep track of what will be expanded in bash scripts and I would really like the distinction between ' and " to go away.
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