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Re: Backslashed space in variable/argument expansion does not prevent sp
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Backslashed space in variable/argument expansion does not prevent splitting. |
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Fri, 17 Jun 2016 11:18:27 -0400 |
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On 6/17/16 6:21 AM, Dean Wakerley wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 42
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The expansion of a variable containing spaces splits on all spaces
> including escaped/backslashed space.
This analysis isn't correct, and the description above describes the
correct behavior. A backslash in the expansion of a variable does not
have any special meaning to word splitting. Backslashes are special to
the shell parser; if you want to have them interpreted, you need to run
the text through the parser. This is usually accomplished using `eval'.
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