On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 08:36:27AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > Maybe I'm just thick this morning, but how do you "nest" double > quotes here: > > $ FILE="foo bar" > $ echo "$(readlink -f $FILE)" > readlink: extra operand `bar' Works fine for me without any extra quotes in zsh. In shell/bash you need more quotes: echo "$(readlink -f "$file")" Regards Simon -- + privacy is necessary + using gnupg http://gnupg.org + public key id: 0x92FEFDB7E44C32F9