Re: `$x` adds single quotes during interpolation under Wrong Circumstances

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: i586-mandrake-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.05b
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> 
> Description:
>         Doing `$x` will add single-quotes sometimes -- but not always.
>         It won't add single-quotes if $x doesn't contain escaped
>         characters. This makes it impossible in some shell scripts to
>         get desired/intended behaviour and in any case seems backwards.
>         If the author has bothered to escape things, he should be able
>         to undestand how to do multiple escapes for multiple
>         interpolations.

There is no bug here.  The single quotes in question are added by the
tracing code enabled by `set -x', so that output may be more easily
reused as input. 

Chet

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