Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation

[Eric Blake]

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According to Angel Tsankov on 2/15/2009 3:02 PM:
> I tried CPATH="${CPATH}${CPATH:+:}"~usr1/blah/blah.  (I quote 
> expansions just to be on the safe side, though I think home directories may 
> not contain spaces.)

There are some contexts, such as variable assignments, where double quotes
are not necessary.

foo='a b'
bar=$foo

is just as safe as

bar="$foo"

In fact, it is MORE portable to avoid double quotes in assignments, if you
are worried about writing scripts portable to more than just bash.  Of
these two constructs:

foo="`echo "a b"`"
bar=`echo "a b"`

only the setting of bar is guaranteed to parse correctly in all shells.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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