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Let's look at examples of these.

Single and double quotes

xxThe first rule of quoting is: always enclose a command argument in quotes if it contains spaces so that the command sees the quoted text as one item. See the difference between:

echo 'Hello world!'     # the argument "Hello world!" 

To see more on how quoting affects text grouping, we'll use quotes to define some multi-word environment variables.

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