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Re: Inconsistent treatment of left-hand side of conditional expression w
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Inconsistent treatment of left-hand side of conditional expression where IFS is not its default value |
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Tue, 20 Feb 2024 11:30:09 -0500 |
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On 2/18/24 5:03 PM, Kerin Millar wrote:
Hi,
This report stems from the discussion at
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2024-02/msg00085.html.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-bash/2024-02/msg00102.html
It has to do with ^A appearing in the result of a word expansion in a
place where word splitting doesn't occur. It's just just conditional
commands; case commands, pattern expansion, and array subscript
expansions are other places where word splitting doesn't take place.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/