What is the usage of the command quote? I haven't found any info about it, it isn't among the executable files in /bin folders, and it cannot be found among Bash built-ins. It seems that it only prints its first parameter, like an echo command and nothing more.
I noticed that this command does not work in my shell (fish, friendly interactive shell). It seems like it does only work in bash (Ubuntu's default).
chocobai@pc ~> /bin/bash
chocobai@pc:~$ quote asdf
'asdf'chocobai@pc:~$
chocobai@pc:~$ type quote
quote is a function.
quote ()
{
local quoted=${1//'/'''};
printf "'%s'" "$quoted"
}
It adds the quotes but no newline. It also escapes single quotes in a way that's suitable for bash. It can be useful in scripts to quote a variable or some other kind of string. You need this for example for paths/parameters with spaces. Although there are other ways to do this.
It's really strange I could not find any documentation (in the web) about it. But well, it's easy to see what it does.
