Redirecting Standard Output to a Variable

I am not a newbie. Similarly, I do not confuse "3" and "E", because I am also not a newbie at reading english. The same facility implies that I do not confuse back and forward tick. It is a difference I am looking for, and the context would only allow me one interpretation anyway.

If one confuses them, one does not understand what one is reading - and THAT is the problem.

I do not use a font that would confuse them - nor do I use a font that confuses "3" and "E".

Order of end.

Why didn't you just print an "-n"? And where are the quotes? Won't that mess up the buttignment?

echo -n "$myVar" od -a 0000000 . 0000001 sh-2.03$ echo -n "$myVar" od -a 0000000 h i 0000002 sh-2.03$

To say nothing of:

sh-2.03$

but

sh-2.03$ echo -n "$myVar" od -a 0000000 sh-2.03$

etc. In my bash none of this looks at all reliable! (insert obligatory swipe at incredible numbers of bugs in bash, forever, here).

sh-2.03$ echo $(echo $(echo hi)) hi sh-2.03$

sh-2.03$ echo $(echo $(echo $(echo hi)ho)hum) hihohum sh-2.03$

sh-2.03$ echo $(myVar=fum;echo $(myVar=fo;echo $(myVar=fe;echo hi$myVar)$myVar)$myVar) hifefofum sh-2.03$

Hmm .. scope's nest, methinks.

Now, you are going to say that

a=`b`c`d`

is ambiguous? So it is! I like that. Peter