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Re: unsetting associative array executes commands
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: unsetting associative array executes commands |
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Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:22:22 -0500 |
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On 3/11/21 11:38 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
Single quotes with the nested double quote? That's nuts. But okay. I
guess there really is some double expansion eval-like logic happening
with the unset operator.
It's not an `operator' per se, it's a builtin command. That means its
arguments undergo the standard word expansions before `unset' even sees
them.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/