Yep, that's an important and maybe non-obvious behavior of the shell: "directly adjacent strings which are double quoted, "'single quoted or even'\ unquoted\ a

Yep, that's an important and maybe non-obvious behavior of the shell: "directly adjacent strings which are double quoted, "'single quoted or even'\ unquoted\ and\ possibly\ full\ of\ escape\ sequences\ 'get concatenated and count as a single parameter.' Running touch on the above will create one file with very long name.