Code 

Anyways apparently `for x in $(echo "a b c")` is NOT equivalent to `for x in "a b c"`

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Code 

@socks that's confusing, how so? would echo -n (suppress trailing newline) help?

re: Code 

@noiob
```
[emi@cyrus ~]$ for x in $(echo "a b c"); do echo "x: $x"; done
x: a
x: b
x: c
[emi@cyrus ~]$ for x in "a b c"; do echo "x: $x"; done
x: a b c
```

It doesn't look like `-n` changes anything

re: Code 

@socks wait, which of the two behaviors do you want?

re: Code 

@socks fwiw:

% for x in a b c; do echo "x: $x"; done  
x: a
x: b
x: c

and

% for x in "$(echo "a b c")"; do echo "x: $x"; done
x: a b c

re: Code 

@noiob What. That's opposite from mine (Bash)

And I want the first one

re: Code 

@socks it's different code from yours, yours works the same for me (zsh)

re: Code 

@noiob Oh so it is. Yeah I hate all of this

re: Code 

@socks yeah that's usually my reaction after writing three lines of bash

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