Re: Assignment with colons *should* be tilde expanded in POSIX mode

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/1/21 6:37 PM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> As you know, POSIX requires tilde expansion following an an unquoted colon in 
> an assignment [1]. A bug was reported [2] against bash 5.1-alpha that the 
> tildes in
>
>      $ echo foo=~:~
>      foo=~:~
>
> should not be expanded in POSIX mode, because this is not an assignment. That 
> was fixed in 5.1-beta. However, that fix also seems to have broken the actual 
> assignment
>
>      $ foo=~:~
>      $ echo "$foo"
>      /home/anders:~
>
> where both tildes should be expanded in POSIX mode, because this is an 
> assignment.

Thanks for the report. I'll take a look and fix whatever is wrong.

Chet

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