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Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment

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On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 01:31:32AM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> So it seems like the word splitting in "A=(X$Z)" is incorrect.

If the documentation doesn't support word splitting in that case,
then it's the documentation that will need to change, not the shell.

Word splitting in that context is *frequently* used in scripts.  Never
mind the fact that it's dangerous and wrong -- people use it, a lot.
A change to the shell that would stop it from occurring would break
countless scripts.

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Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 07:38 -0400

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