Re: Bash reference manual

[Wail Yahyaoui]

Ok, thank you.

⁣Wail

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On Feb 21, 2019, 16:10, at 16:10, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
>On 2/21/19 6:04 AM, Wail Yahyaoui wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was reading the Bash reference manual online and I could not find
>any mention that when doing variable assignments there should be no
>space around the equal sign.
>
>The example in the texinfo manual doesn't include spaces:
>
>A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form
>     NAME=[VALUE]
>
>In addition, the requirement that there be no spaces is implied, since
>the
>assignment statement has to be a single word.
>
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