On 11/11/2016 01:40 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:

>> $ ls --quoting-style=literal
>> a  b  c
> ----
>    You must have a strange version of something -- that's not
> what I see:
> 
>>  touch 'a b' c

That's your problem.  Paul did:

$ touch 'a  b' c

with two spaces, not one.

> Where (or under what conditions)
> do you see the "a, b and c" being
> spaced apart equally?

When you intentionally create the spacing between a and b to match the
spacing between a*b and c.

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