On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 08:13 -0800, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > I will do the short explanation > This expression does what I call Double expansion > echo $($A) > First it expands echo HI > Then it does the echo which yields HI Please read the former mail, it echoes the quotes. > In your second command > echo 'hi' > It just echos hi .. like it should > Sorry, if this doesn't sound real elegant.. Someone will give a > better description Nor elegant neither understandable, but thanks for trying. :) ---------------------------------------------- Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo - nospaze@xxxxxxxxx otbits.blogspot.com / counter.li.org: #367962 ---------------------------------------------- "Die dümmsten Programmierer haben die längsten Programme." - Unbekannter Autor -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines