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Is `echo $TEST` expanding an asterisk in the variable a bug? [duplicate]
Is this a Bash bug?
$ mkdir test && cd test && echo "a" > "some.file"
test$ echo '*'
*
test$ TEST=$(echo '*')
test$ echo $TEST
some.file
Why is the second output the resolution of ...
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variable expansion within command substitution over SSH bash 4.X
I want to do this ssh ${w100user}@web100 'ls -l "$(grep "${1}" /etc/pure-ftpd/pureftpd.passwd|cut -d':' -f6)"'
Which obviously performs an ssh session to server web100 as w100user and then greps ...
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