Eben King wrote:
>No. If you type
>
>/bin/foo 1 2
>
>foo gets two arguments, '1' and '2'. You get the same invocation as if
>you had typed
>
>/bin/foo "1" "2"
>
>It's up to /bin/foo whether to treat them as 0x01 and 0x02 or ASCII 0x32
>and 0x33. If you type
>
>/bin/foo "1 2"
>
>foo gets one argument, '1 2'. All this is based on what interprets your
>typing, but this is usually how it's done.
>
>
>
I take it, then, that anything inside quotes is typically interpreted by
the shell, and the quotes only serve to group elements of a statement
together.
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