Re: ${var:+"quo ted"} and similar, inside unquoted here-docs

[Eric Blake]

On 08/30/2010 08:57 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-bash]
> On 08/29/2010 08:48 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > With Solaris 10 sh (and others):
> >
> > cat<<EOF
> > ${var-"quo ted"}
> > EOF
> >
> > "quo ted"
> >
> > Whereas with bash (and others):
> >
> > quo ted
>
> Ouch. New one to me. ksh, zsh, and dash do not echo the quotes, so I'm
> thinking it may be a bash bug; hence the cc.

Sorry about that; I read my results wrong.  bash is consistent with 
everyone else, and only /bin/sh was the outlier.  No bug in bash, after all.

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