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on Oct 8, 2009
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Common Bash Pitfalls
Special characters are substituted in double quotes. They're treated as literals in single quotes.
Seems pretty consistent to me.
barrkel
on Oct 9, 2009
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Aliases are handled differently though, before e.g. file glob expansion. I would have expected history to be handled similarly.
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Seems pretty consistent to me.