Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode
Date	2020-07-18 18:04 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 7/18/20 1:38 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> See:
> 
>     $ set +k -o posix
>     $ echo foo=~:~
>     foo=~:/home/oguz
> 
> If I'm not misreading the standard `foo=~:~' should be printed
> verbatim, all shells I have except bash does so.

Thanks for the report. This one has been around since bash-3.1.

Chet

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