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Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

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On 2020-09-21 16:28, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:19:22PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 2020-09-21 00:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42'
>>> is involved in quote removal.
>> Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy!  Another whole dimension for potential problems!
> There is great confusion here, because the OP was so vague and misleading
> about *everything*.  Including which shell was being used.
>
> "compat42" and "shopt" are bashisms.  They are not present nor relevant
> in dash.
>
>> RTFM dash(1) I don't see any 'compat' keywords... (?)
> Correct.
>
>> STFW https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=dash%20compat42 I don't see 'compat'
>> anywhere on the first page of hits... (?)
>>
>> Where are the above settings documented?
> In bash(1).  They are bash settings.
>
> To the best of my knowledge, there is no bash shopt or compat* setting
> that will change the behavior of quotes in such a profound way as to
> cause the problem that the OP imagined he had.
>
> At this point, I'm still convinced that it was a curly-quote issue.  Of
> course, we'll never know for sure, because the OP is incapable of presenting
> simple facts like "here is the script which fails" and "here is its output".
>
I presented the line that failed, copied and pasted from the Konsole 
session. What more do you want, other than to complain?

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weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 00:10 +0200
  Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-09-21 00:20 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 02:40 +0200
      Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 05:00 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 06:00 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 06:20 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 05:40 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 06:10 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2020-09-21 14:00 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 14:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-21 16:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 03:00 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-22 15:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 19:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-23 17:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 18:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 18:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 19:00 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 19:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 20:50 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-22 02:40 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 22:20 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 03:10 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-22 06:30 +0200
                Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 22:10 +0200
                SSH agent forwarding (was: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable  assignments) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-23 00:40 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 14:00 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 18:40 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 03:10 +0200
  Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-09-21 10:00 +0200
    Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-21 22:20 +0200
      Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-21 22:30 +0200
        Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-21 23:30 +0200
          Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-22 07:50 +0200
            Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Gary Dale <gary@extremeground.com> - 2020-09-22 22:40 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-09-22 23:00 +0200
              Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-09-23 12:00 +0200

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