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problem with extra space; setting? cygwin only?

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  problem with extra space; setting? cygwin only? L A Walsh <bash@tlinx.org> - 2020-06-23 12:21 -0700

#16443 — problem with extra space; setting? cygwin only?

I do:

set output
echo ">$1<"
>output<
output=""printf ${1:+-v $1} "%s:%s" 23 myproc



-Bash: printf: ` output': not a valid identifier



for some reason it is regarding the space before $1 in
the printf as part of the variable name.

It doesn't seem to do this on linux (lnx 4.4.12(3), cyg-4.4.12(1)).

If I remove the space it works on both linux and cygwin.

The manpage shows [-v var], as the syntax, but [-vVAR] works in both
places.  Is the manpage only correct sometimes?  Or is there some switch to
toggle this behavior that I don't know about?

Thanks!
-linda

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