关于shell中$VARIABLE ${VARIABLE} "$VARIABLE"

这是一个关于添加记录到指定文件的小工具

首先给出正常运行的代码

#!/bin/bash
echo "Choose an action to executive!"
echo "1|append):add a line to the file
2|cat)print the content of the file
3|quit)exit the process"

read action
case $action in
    1|append)
        echo "the file you're going to edit is: $1"
        echo "type \"cat\" for content of $1, type \"quit\" to leave"
        echo "and enter what you want to append, then it will add to thelast of the file......"
        for ((i=0;i<100;i=i+1))
        do
        echo "you've edit the $1 for $i time(s)"
            read content
            if [ "$content" == "cat" ]; then
                    less $1
                else if [ "$content" == "quit" ]; then
                    {    echo "process suspend ...exit"
                        exit 0
                    }
                        else
                        {    echo "$content" >> $1
                            echo "any else?---->"
                        }
                    fi
            fi
        done
        ;;
    2|cat)
        cat $1
        ;;
    3|quit)
        echo "you choose to leave, thank you for using Enote"
        exit 0
        ;;
    *)
        echo "choose an action to executive, if not i'll quit directly!!"
        ;;
esac

这里采用字符串对append功能进行测试

当24行的echo命令的引用变只要采用了$号作引用后，不论加不加“”双引号在面，变量是否加{}都没有影响输出

now, echo without "" & {}
now echo string is with {} but no ""
it works

但是对于shell中条件判断的test命令来说，并不是一回事，这里采用的字符串比较（包含多个word，所以才有这样的问题）
now, test the 'test' command contains quoted string without ""
it replys: ./Enote: line 17: [: too many arguments
now, two 'test' command are without "" in quoting variables
then,it replys: ./Enote: line 17: [: too many arguments
./Enote: line 19: [: too many arguments
now, in command 'test' {} are added to quote variables
replys: ./Enote: line 17: [: too many arguments
./Enote: line 19: [: too many argumequit
now, it changes to original
replys nothing

可见，对于 [ "string1" == "string2" ] 是不能去引号的