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


From: M. Nejat AYDIN
Subject: Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:00:24 +0300
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On 7/21/20 3:30 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
I have no objection to bash's decision here.  I actually find it less
surprising than dash's decision, although both are rational ones.

I think dash is complying with POSIX here. If the behaviour of bash is
to be preserved then the documentation should be updated, in my opinion.
The current wording in
www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Tilde-Expansion.html
isn't coherent with the current behaviour, for this corner case.


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