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Changed – to — in several places. Minor rewording of prose in the 

"Variables" section.
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@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Hello world
and executes the command "<computeroutput><command>bash
hello</command></computeroutput>". The other is the non-interactive Bash
shell that you manually started to execute the script. The interactive
shell isn't doing anything while the script is running &ndash; it's merely
shell isn't doing anything while the script is running &mdash; it's merely
waiting for the non-interactive shell to terminate. In <xref
linkend="ex-running-hello"/>, the interactive shell is Bash, but you don't
have to use Bash as your interactive shell to run a Bash script. The
@ -841,7 +841,7 @@ two lines"
of that command, your interactive shell doesn't execute the command.
Instead, it notices that you have not typed a closing double quote, and
prompts you to continue entering the command. Only when a complete
command &ndash; with a balanced set of double quotes &ndash; has been
command &mdash; with a balanced set of double quotes &mdash; has been
entered, will pressing the <keysym>ENTER</keysym> key execute the command.
You can write the above command in a shell script too, and it will behave
the same way.
@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ echo *
This happens because the asterisk is a Bash wildcard metacharacter, and
Bash replaces each word containing an asterisk with a list of matching file
and directory names before executing the command. You want Bash to treat
the asterisk as if it were just an ordinary character &ndash; not a
the asterisk as if it were just an ordinary character &mdash; not a
metacharacter. To do this, you use double quotes to
<firstterm>escape</firstterm> (or <firstterm>quote</firstterm>) the
asterisk as follows:
@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ My home directory is $HOME
As you can see, both single and double quotes escape the
"<computeroutput>*</computeroutput>" metacharacter, but only single quotes
are powerful enough to escape the "<computeroutput>$</computeroutput>"
metacharacter (which is used to expand variables &ndash; we'll cover
metacharacter (which is used to expand variables &mdash; we'll cover
variables in <xref linkend="sect-variables"/>).
</para>
@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ Welcome to Frodo's Place!
<title>Variables</title>
<para>
A variable is a name for a memory location where a shell script can store
A variable is a name for a place in memory where a shell script can store
a string of characters. Those characters can be anything, including
letters, digits, punctuation, spaces and tabs. In the following sections,
we discuss how to assign values to variables and how to access those