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From: Dominik Vogt <vogt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Nested quotes
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Maybe I'm just thick this morning, but how do you "nest" double
quotes here:

  $ FILE="foo bar"
  $ echo "$(readlink -f $FILE)"
  readlink: extra operand `bar'

Obviously $FILE needs to be quoted too.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^