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Subject: Re: The colon
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date: 2009-01-28 14:40:53
Message-ID: 49806E75.5080801 () case ! edu
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Stephane Chazelas wrote:
>
> That would be a bug. Looking at the code, it takes a different
> path for colon just because of the fact that in assignment,
> tilde expansion is performed after a colon (as in
> PATH=...:~/bin), if : happens to also be an IFS character, it is
> therefore not internally /quoted/ at some stage of the
> processing and then there's splitting involved later on. (that's
> my interpretation after a quick look). There's the same problem
> with ~ and = at least:
Thanks for the push in the right direction. This will be fixed for
bash-4.0.
Chet
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