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Re: Bash' code to store string of any characters containing pair of "" a


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Bash' code to store string of any characters containing pair of "" and '' at once
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2024 11:57:13 -0500
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On 12/21/24 7:29 PM, Robert Elz wrote:

I'm not sure of its origins (it was proposed to POSIX decades ago),
Chet can confirm, but I suspect bash picked it up from the proposal
to POSIX.

It predated that. There was a group of shell implementors who got together
to discuss possible POSIX extensions, and it came out of that. By the time
David Wheeler proposed it, bash, ksh93, and zsh had implementations.

The original proposal dates from 2010:

https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=249

Chet
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