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Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.13.0 Content-language: en-US To: Zsh Users From: Ray Andrews Subject: preserving single quotes Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Seq: 28156 Archived-At: X-Loop: zsh-users@zsh.org Errors-To: zsh-users-owner@zsh.org Precedence: list Precedence: bulk Sender: zsh-users-request@zsh.org X-no-archive: yes List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: I've done this before but I can't remember the invocation. $ dd="echo howdy" $ ee=$($=dd); echo $ee howdy $ dd="aptitude search '?name(libreoffice-java-common)'" $ ee=$($=dd); echo $ee $ (no output) ... I have to be able to run the aptitude command with the single quotes intact.  I've tried every little trick that's worked before but I'm just not finding the magic.