On 2016-09-05 19:12:54 +0000, Mark Galeck wrote:
> The standard says in the section 2.2.3 on Double-Quotes and $ :
> "even number of unescaped double-quotes or single-quotes, if any,
> shall occur".
Concerning this point, these even number of double-quotes and even
number of single-quotes are fulfilled with the example below:
echo "${foo-'a"b'"}"
But is this valid?
The following shells output 'ab' (with the single quotes):
dash, bash --posix, mksh, posh, zsh.
But not ksh93, which outputs a ">" prompt:
$ echo "${foo-'a"b'"}"
>
and if I type Ctrl-D, I get:
$ echo "${foo-'a"b'"}"
> ksh93: syntax error: `'' unmatched
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