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Answer by Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' for Expansion of a shell variable and...

Variable expansion (the standard term is parameter expansion, and it's also sometimes called variable substitution) basically means replacing the variable by its value. More precisely, it means...

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Answer by slm for Expansion of a shell variable and effect of glob and split...

glob/split I'll take the glob/split first. @Stephane's answer you linked to is using those terms in a general sense. They are not actual commands or anything like that, just pseudo operations. The...

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Expansion of a shell variable and effect of glob and split on it

This post actually contains two separate questions but I think grouping them together will give some more context. I have gone through this question on quotes around variables but I do not quite...

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