There is, and in the second topic below we’ll dive into this.

It depends to a good extent on developer preference.

Both mini-scripts result in the same empty output, astrueis notuntrue.

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And this is justonedeveloper writing it inhis way.

From these examples it is clear that your mileage will vary over time.

sleep 1 # First sleep

sleep 1 # Second sleep

Single Quotes or Double Quotes?

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For the second example however, the output isHello world.

Thus, our subshell executedecho ‘Hello world’of which the output isHello world.

Note that we changed the double quotes inside the subshell to single quotes.

Two ways to code in Bash; same functionality, quite different code

This is not necessary!

This is not the case however.

This shows some of the programming power of Bash.

A complex oneliner example

The same complex oneline in a full script instead

Single quotes versus double quotes in Bash in a hello world example

Bash readily accepts repeated double quotes inside a subshell