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19 Temmuz 2020 Pazar tarihinde Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> yazd=C4=B1:

> On 7/19/20 1:47 AM, O=C4=9Fuz wrote:
> > By the way,
> > wouldn't it be better if the same tilde expansion rules as with
> assignment
> > statements was applied to parameter expansions that assign default
> values?
> > Like,
> >
> >     unset foo
> >     echo ${foo=3D~:~otheruser}
> >
> > assigns `/home/oguz:~otheruser' to `foo' regardless of whether
> `otheruser'
> > is a valid login name for an existing user.
>
> Maybe, but Posix says this isn't a variable assignment context, as POSIX
> defines variable assignments, and technically  the shell shouldn't perfor=
m
> tilde expansions after `=3D' or `:' at all. You could argue that bash has=
 a
> bug here in that it expands the tilde after the `=3D'.
>
>
Yes, apparently that's a bug too, which in my opinion needs to be fixed in
normal mode as well.


> --
> ``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/
>


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