Vincent Lefevre <vincent-o...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> 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.
I cannot repeat this with bash --posix..
ksh93, ksh88, historical Bourne Shell, Schily Bourne Shell and for me "bash"
all behave the same: they write a PS2 prompt.
Jörg
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