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Re: backquote peculiarities
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: backquote peculiarities |
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Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:47:33 -0400 |
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On 7/16/19 3:03 PM, astian wrote:
> Ah, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if the excerpt below (particularly
> the last sentence) would be the relevant wording of POSIX, i.e. that some
> shells might interpret the command as the concatenation of a double-quoted
> string, the unquoted $i, and another double-quoted string:
That's the historical Bourne shell behavior, and I'm pretty sure that
ksh-88, at least, preserves it.
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