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Re: Issue with Bash-4.3 Official Patch 27


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Issue with Bash-4.3 Official Patch 27
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 09:09:24 -0400
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On 10/15/14, 1:49 PM, Lorenz.Bucher.ext@rohde-schwarz.com wrote:

> But anyway.
> In my opinion I should trust a shell not violating their own rules and be 
> able to import their own variables.

That's not the issue.  The shell can import variables like that just fine,
as evidenced by exported functions actually working.  The question is
whether or not `export' lets you set and export non-identifiers.  It does
and should not.

> So the % character should be allowed to be used in variable names.

No, shell variable names should continue to be shell identifiers.  You
can already use `%' (any character, really) in environment variable
names.

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