Re: Expansion of $"foo" is "foo", not "$foo"

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: sparc-sun-solaris2.7
> 
> Bash Version: 2.05
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       I haven't read the standard, but Solaris /usr/xpg4/bin/sh
>       will output "$foo", not "foo" as the result of the command
>       echo $"foo".  That is what I would expect intuitively, too.
>       (I noticed this due to a typo in Red Hat 7.1's script
>       /etc/init.d/xfs, which had no visible effect.)

Read the QUOTING section of the bash manual page.  It says, in part:

.PP   
A double-quoted string preceded by a dollar sign (\fB$\fP) will cause
the string to be translated according to the current locale.
If the current locale is \fBC\fP or \fBPOSIX\fP, the dollar sign
is ignored.
If the string is translated and replaced, the replacement is
double-quoted.

This is also covered in item 1 in the COMPAT file.


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