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09-20-07, 15:34

brdholman

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Assigning string to var and then echo

Why do these 2 lines first output the contents of the current directory and then the string assigned to VERSION?

VERSION=' * Exstream Dialogue Version 5.0.061'
echo $VERSION

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09-21-07, 04:33

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Because you don't quote the variable:

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echo "$VERSION"

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09-21-07, 08:30

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thanks! Sorry for a silly question, just getting use to this.

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