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Re: Assignment with colons *should* be tilde expanded in POSIX mode
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Assignment with colons *should* be tilde expanded in POSIX mode |
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Tue, 2 Nov 2021 11:11:26 -0400 |
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On 11/1/21 6:37 PM, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
As you know, POSIX requires tilde expansion following an an unquoted colon in
an assignment [1]. A bug was reported [2] against bash 5.1-alpha that the
tildes in
$ echo foo=~:~
foo=~:~
should not be expanded in POSIX mode, because this is not an assignment. That
was fixed in 5.1-beta. However, that fix also seems to have broken the actual
assignment
$ foo=~:~
$ echo "$foo"
/home/anders:~
where both tildes should be expanded in POSIX mode, because this is an
assignment.
Thanks for the report. I'll take a look and fix whatever is wrong.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/