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

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  Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode "M. Nejat AYDIN" <mnaydin@yahoo.com> - 2020-07-21 10:55 +0300

#16596 — Re: Assignment-like word shouldn't be subjected to tilde expansion in POSIX mode

On 7/19/20 1:04 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> 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.

Also, shouldn't the tilde be expanded following
     $ echo ~:
? The colon terminates tilde-prefix in an assignment, but there is no
assignment involved here.

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