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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 09:13:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: Expanding a variable extracted from another file
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>, Zsh MailingList <zsh-users@zsh.org>
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> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:48 PM TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Assume I have a plain text file "$HOME/MyReferenceDoc.txt" which has
> these lines:
>
> "$HOME/glue/sticks"
> "$HOME/foo/bar"
> "$HOME/work/files"

What is the meaning of quotes? Are these all equivalent?

  "$HOME/foo/bar"
  '$HOME/foo/bar'
  $HOME/foo/bar
  \$HOME/foo/bar

Code posted by Bart assumes that they are. ${(Qe)MYVAR} have the same
value if MYVAR is set to any of these lines.

Roman.