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- GROUPING ARGUMENTS WITH DOUBLE-QUOTES
- Normally each argument field ends at the next white space,
- but double-quotes may be used to create arguments with
- embedded space. If an argument field begins with a double-
- quote, then the argument isn't terminated by white space
- (including newlines) or a semi-colon (see below for
- information on semi-colons); instead it ends at the next
- double-quote character. The double-quotes are not included
- in the resulting argument. For example, the command
-
- set a "This is a single argument"
-
- will pass two arguments to set: a and This is a single
- argument. Within double-quotes, command substitutions,
- variable substitutions, and backslash substitutions still
- occur, as described below. If the first character of a
- command field is not a quote, then quotes receive no special
- interpretation in the parsing of that field.
-