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Re: [Help-bash] Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly i
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Chris Down |
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Re: [Help-bash] Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly immune to word splitting? |
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Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:28:01 +0800 |
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On 2013-12-24 10:14:48 +0800, Chris Down wrote:
> Is the actionable variable in a case statement POSIXly immune to word
> splitting? I looked at the POSIX spec and didn't see anything about it,
> but it's quite possible that I just missed it in the rest of the text.
> All shells that I've tested (bash, zsh, mksh, dash) seem to behave this
> way.
I should mention that obviously it makes sense to not perform word
splitting here, but my question is more about whether POSIX explicitly
defines it somewhere.
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