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Re: leading "--" changes whether `~' is expanded?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: leading "--" changes whether `~' is expanded? |
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16 May 2001 11:27:38 -0400 |
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Chet Ramey <chet@nike.ins.cwru.edu> writes:
> Bash does tilde expansion in words that appear to be variable
> assignments (POSIX.2, section 3.6.1). POSIX says to do it only for
> assignment statements preceding a command, but bash does it for any
> word that looks like an assignment statement
Since you're already stepping outside of POSIX territory, why not
stick with the seemingly more useful 1.14 behavior, and do tilde
expansion after all '='?
paul