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Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function stateme
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement |
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Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:39:40 -0500 |
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On 1/12/16 2:52 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
>
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>> No. The shell doesn't perform any word expansions on the `name' when
>> executing a function definition command. Since the documentation doesn't
>> say it performs any expansions, why would you assume it does?
>>
> Because it does quote quote removal on other statements that _seem_ to be
> of similar syntax.
Appearances can be deceptive. The difference is between a simple command
(that happens to be a builtin) and an element of the shell grammar.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, (continued)
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Chet Ramey, 2016/01/11
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Linda Walsh, 2016/01/12
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Greg Wooledge, 2016/01/12
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Linda Walsh, 2016/01/12
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Chet Ramey, 2016/01/13
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Linda Walsh, 2016/01/13
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement, Chet Ramey, 2016/01/13
- Re: doesn't bash do variable subst. or quote removal on function statement,
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