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Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory


From: Norbert Preining
Subject: Re: texi2dvi: fix support for whitespace in working directory
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 06:45:05 +0900
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Gavin Smith wrote:
> "...the Bourne shell does not systematically split variables and
> back-quoted expressions, in particular on the right-hand side of
> assignments and in the argument of case."

Gavin, texi2dvi starts with
        /bin/sh
that means it can be *any* shell including dash (POSIX).

You cannot expect bash behaviour then.

Norbert

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