I HATE BASH

It's so shit. Shittier than PHP by at least 10 orders of magnitude.

Link related, it's the nigger who wrote it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer)

>>33
KSH93
─> ksh
$ variable="HAX      MY      ANUS"
$ echo $variable
HAX MY ANUS
$ exit

I fucking hate this ``feature''.

>>67
$ echo "$variable"

>>70
I know, but why does the common case require extra typing?

>>71

It's a byproduct of the shell tokenising input for you.

The alternative is for each command to do its own tokenisation, but then you'd have all sorts of bullshit like needing to escape different sets of charactors for cp and rm.

>>71
Sometimes you actually do need those whitespaces trimmed. Seems this is the least counter-intuitive way they could think of, or something...