#!/command/execlineb -P # This execlineb script will sleep for 1 second, then print some # silly things on the standard output. foreground # an unquoted string, evaluated to: foreground { # A single opening brace, not included in the argv sleep 1 # Two unquoted strings, evaluated to " sleep" and " 1" # (without the quotation marks). } # A single closing brace, evaluated to the empty word "echo" # this is a quoted string. It will evaluate to the word: echo foo\ bar\ zoinx # This is one word, since the spaces are escaped "foo bar zoinx" # This is exactly the same word, written another way " # this is not a comment, since it is inside a quoted string # This is not a comment either \" # nor is this " # but this is one "\0x41\66\0103D\n" # This is the string ABCD followed by a newline. # Be careful: the newline will be part of the word. \n # this is not a newline, but the single word: n $23 # This will NOT be replaced by anything with execline-1.y, unless # substitution is explicitly asked for in the script. # The dollar is no special character for the execline binary. baz"$1"qux # This will evaluate to the word baz$1qux baz\$1qux # Same here baz$1qux # Same here in execline-1.y ${PATH} # This will NOT be replaced by execline ; use the importas command # if you need the $PATH value. 'this is not a string' # it will be parsed as five separate words "\ " # This will be parsed as the empty word. A (backslash, newline) # sequence inside a quoted string is entirely removed.