$(..)
instead
of '..'
.for i in 'seq 1 10'
do
echo "$i"
done
for i in $(seq 1 10)
do
echo "$i"
done
The intent was to run the code in the single quotes. This would have
worked with slanted backticks, `..`
, but here the very
similar looking single quotes '..'
were used, resulting in
a string literal instead of command output.
This is one of the many problems with backticks, so it's better to
use $(..)
to expand commands.
None.
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