Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.snarked.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: backquote peculiarities Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:47:33 -0400 Lines: 15 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <8091.1563212947@jinx.noi.kre.to> <84005319-e232-8404-fe0b-471dafad381c@e-nautia.com> <2dbaa57c-9579-8484-f206-fbe8f3689dcd@case.edu> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1563306464 11556 209.51.188.17 (16 Jul 2019 19:47:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, bug-bash@gnu.org To: astian , Robert Elz Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=case.edu; s=smtp-primary; t=1563306455; bh=zbha47dnGRPEYsvt0rOZPvGvLEj7JIcCkMlk6E4kG8Q=; h=Reply-To:Cc:Subject:To:References:From:Message-ID:Date: MIME-Version:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; 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Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=8/90, host=mpv4-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=8/90, refid=2.7.2:2019.7.16.191516:17:8.707, ip=, rules=DKIM_SIGNATURE, __HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __MULTIPLE_RCPTS_CC_X2, __SUBJ_REPLY, LEO_OBFU_SUBJ_RE, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __HAS_REFERENCES, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __DKIM_ALIGNS_1, __DKIM_ALIGNS_2, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __CP_NOT_1, __FRAUD_MONEY_CURRENCY_DOLLAR, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __BODY_NO_MAILTO, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_600_699, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.195 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-Mailman-Original-Message-ID: <2dbaa57c-9579-8484-f206-fbe8f3689dcd@case.edu> X-Mailman-Original-References: <8091.1563212947@jinx.noi.kre.to> <84005319-e232-8404-fe0b-471dafad381c@e-nautia.com> Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:15181 On 7/16/19 3:03 PM, astian wrote: > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if the excerpt below (particularly > the last sentence) would be the relevant wording of POSIX, i.e. that some > shells might interpret the command as the concatenation of a double-quoted > string, the unquoted $i, and another double-quoted string: That's the historical Bourne shell behavior, and I'm pretty sure that ksh-88, at least, preserves it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/