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  1. Sep 2023
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    Why does bash ignore newlines when doing for loop over the contents of a C-style string?
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    1. TylerRick 22 Sep 2023
      Bash doesn't do word expansion on quoted strings in this context. For example: $ for i in "a b c d"; do echo $i; done a b c d $ for i in a b c d; do echo $i; done a b c d
      confusing for newcomers shell scripting: handling spaces in input shell: argument expansion/quoting shell caveat key point
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  3. Apr 2021
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    How to trick an application into thinking its stdout is a terminal, not a pipe
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    1. TylerRick 14 Apr 2021
      The quirky looking printf is necessary to correctly expand the script's arguments in $@ while protecting possibly quoted parts of the command (see example below).
      shell: argument expansion/quoting best practices escaping (encoding)
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