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From: Linda Walsh <bash@tlinx.org>
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Subject: Re: read and env variables + POSIX => SEGFAULT
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Geir Hauge wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 08:01:05PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> # this is odd: 2vars with content for 2:
>>> unset a b
>>> a= b= read a b <<< x y
>>> declare -p a b
>> declare -- a="x"
>> declare -- b=""
>>
>> # -- where did "y" go?
> 
>     read a b <<< x y
> is the same as
>     read a b y <<< x
> 
> If you escape the space, to make it literal instead of syntactical, you'll get
> the expected result:
> 
>     $ a= b= read a b <<< x\ y
>     $ declare -p a b
>     declare -- a="x"
>     declare -- b="y"
---
	Was sorta meant as a rhetorical Question in the batch
of examples that seem to have differing behavior -- but especially
in contrast with the POSIX versions that dump core.

Bad-syntax shouldn't yield Segmentation Violations...