Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Posted Dec 8, 2011 22:51 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks) by mathstuf
Parent article: Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

You don't need to do any of that.

printf '%s' "$bar" is sufficient. The value of bar isn't expanded or interpreted.