Quotes

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• '' - no special meaning for any character except '
• "" - no special meaning for any character except ", $, \ and `
• \ - escape next character (disable special meaning of next character)
• `` - (backtick) command substitution
• $() - command subsitutions.

examples/intro/quotes.txt

$ echo 'hello "world"'
hello "world"

$ echo "hello $0"
hello -bash
$ echo 'hello $0'
hello $0

$ echo "hello \"world\""
hello "world"

$ echo "date: `date`"
date: Fri Apr 11 10:42:21 IDT 2014

$ echo "date: $(date)"
date: Fri Apr 11 10:45:44 IDT 2014