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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue. |
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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:23:28 -0600 |
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On 08/03/2010 03:42 PM, Tim Rice wrote:
>> ksh is the only shell that requires a space between the ) and {, even
>> though the ) is a metacharacter and should not need trailing space (even
>> Solaris /bin/sh got that right).
>
> Hmm, on my UnixWare machine
>
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
> $ ksh88 -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
>
> On my Solaris 10 box with ksh Version M-11/16/88i
> $ ksh -c 'a(){ echo hi; }; a'
> hi
>
> Even my old OpenLinux 3.1.1 machine running pdksh-5.2.14-6MR gets it right
>
> What version of ksh did you test on?
My testing was with ksh93:
Version M 1993-12-28 o+
So David Korn introduced a regression sometime since ksh88.
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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue., Mikael Magnusson, 2010/08/04
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