Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/19/20 1:47 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> By the way,
> wouldn't it be better if the same tilde expansion rules as with assignment
> statements was applied to parameter expansions that assign default values?
> Like,
> 
>     unset foo
>     echo ${foo=~:~otheruser}
> 
> assigns `/home/oguz:~otheruser' to `foo' regardless of whether `otheruser'
> is a valid login name for an existing user. 

Maybe, but Posix says this isn't a variable assignment context, as POSIX
defines variable assignments, and technically  the shell shouldn't perform
tilde expansions after `=' or `:' at all. You could argue that bash has a
bug here in that it expands the tilde after the `='.


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