VAR="-e xyz"
echo $VAR
This prints xyz, for some reason. I don’t seem to be able to find a way to get a string to start with -e.
What is going on here?
VAR=-e xyz echo $VAR This prints xyz , for some reason. I don’t seem
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VAR="-e xyz"
echo $VAR
This prints xyz, for some reason. I don’t seem to be able to find a way to get a string to start with -e.
What is going on here?
The variable
VARcontains-e xyz, if you access the variable via$the-eis interpreted as a command-line option forecho. Note that the content of$VARis not wrapped into""automatically.Use
echo "$VAR"to fix your problem.