Re: unexpected tilde quoting change in version 4.3

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/22/14, 4:08 PM, idallen@idallen.ca wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.2 and 4.3
> 
> Description:
> 
> I find this change in quoting from 4.2 to 4.3 odd, where double-quoted
> "~" used to be quoted (no expansion) and no longer works:

This just came up yesterday, for pete's sake:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-10/msg00197.html

A longer explanation, with links to older bug reports:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-03/msg00038.html

The Posix interpretation that prompted the behavior change came in 2010:

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221

The current version of Posix says this about the substring removal word
expansions, which use patterns in the same way as pattern substitution:

"Enclosing the full parameter expansion string in double-quotes shall not
cause the following four varieties of pattern characters to be quoted,
whereas quoting characters within the braces shall have this effect."

Chet
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