[Bash][quotes] Unexpected shell output

Asked May 14 '14 at 09:55

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The unexpected behaviour is the output in the shell when using double qoutes or not, i.e:

shell>: echo $var
Row1 This is the first Row2 This is the second Row3 This is the third

shell>: echo "$var"
Row1 This is the first 
Row2 This is the second 
Row3 This is the third

The amazing part is that the words Rown have a colored background, and this color is visible in both cases. The questions is the following:

¿If both things (color and \n) are escape commands, why the color is present in both cats and the escape line only in the second one?

Thanks

edited May 14 '14 at 10:04

devnull

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asked May 14 '14 at 09:55

Antonio

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Are you sure it's `cat` and not `echo`? – devnull May 14 '14 at 09:58
devnull, I see the effect, what is doing bash in a different way than other to have this behaviour? – Antonio May 14 '14 at 10:13

[Bash][quotes] Unexpected shell output

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