Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode

[M. Nejat AYDIN]

On 7/19/20 1:04 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/18/20 1:38 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> > See:
> >
> >      $ set +k -o posix
> >      $ echo foo=~:~
> >      foo=~:/home/oguz
> >
> > If I'm not misreading the standard `foo=~:~' should be printed
> > verbatim, all shells I have except bash does so.
>
> Thanks for the report. This one has been around since bash-3.1.

Also, shouldn't the tilde be expanded following
    $ echo ~:
? The colon terminates tilde-prefix in an assignment, but there is no
assignment involved here.