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Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation
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Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:31:43 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) |
Eric Blake wrote:
> The portability bug I am referring to is the use of double-quoted
> back-ticks containing a double quote. Some (buggy) shells require you to
> use \" instead of " inside backticks if the overall backtick expression is
> double-quoted.
Hence this statement in Posix:
Either of the following cases produces undefined results:
* A single-quoted or double-quoted string that begins, but does not
end, within the "`...`" sequence
* A "`...`" sequence that begins, but does not end, within the same
double-quoted string
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, (continued)
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Angel Tsankov, 2009/02/15
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Eric Blake, 2009/02/15
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Angel Tsankov, 2009/02/16
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Dave B, 2009/02/16
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Angel Tsankov, 2009/02/16
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation, Eric Blake, 2009/02/16
- Re: No tilde expansion right after a quotation,
Chet Ramey <=