Re: How does quote removal work with alternative forms of parameter expansion?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/26/24 8:00 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:



> > x="${1:-'$bar'}"  |  bash x.sh ""   |   'expanded'  => why not quote
> > removal, why expansion?
>
> I don't know.  Bourne compatibility, perhaps.

Because when using that form of expansion, they are affected by the
enclosing double quotes and single quotes are not special in a double-
quoted string.


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