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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue. |
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Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:15:33 -0400 |
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On 8/3/10 4:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs]
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> On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> Interesting shell unportability:
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>> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
>> val
>> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
>> val
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>> ksh93, dash, zsh all do it like ksh. Is that a bug in bash?
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> Yes; adding bug-bash accordingly. According to POSIX:
Thanks; this was an easy fix.
Chet
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