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Re: documentation for ${!prefix*} is misleading
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: documentation for ${!prefix*} is misleading |
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Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:07:40 -0400 |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:50:48PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> There is no special behaviour of the * version.
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> The quotes only make the difference of whether word
> splitting can be applied on the expansion (if word splitting is
> considered in the first place, which isn't in the case of a variable
> assignment, for example).
Oh... I see now. That's pretty nasty.