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Re: Empty ""s in ARG in ${x:+ARG} expand to no words instead of the empty word if prepended/appended with space

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  Re: Empty ""s in ARG in ${x:+ARG} expand to no words instead of the empty word if prepended/appended with space Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-07-21 11:33 -0400

#14378 — Re: Empty ""s in ARG in ${x:+ARG} expand to no words instead of the empty word if prepended/appended with space

On 7/21/18 12:44 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> $ f() { for i; do echo "|$i|"; done; }
>> $ x=x
>> $ e=
>> $ f ${x:+ ""}
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^ prints nothing, bug?
>>
>> $  ${x:+"" }
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^ prints nothing, bug?
> 
> Insufficient quoting.  That argument should be quoted to avoid the
> whitespace getting stripped.  (Is that during word splitting phase
> using the IFS?  I think so.)

Even if the whitespace gets stripped out, the quoted null string should
result in an empty argument. Different shells are inconsistent about this,
but I believe that if word splitting occurs, the empty string (or "$e",
anything that expands to an empty string) should result in a null word.

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