A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1191 ====================================================================== Reported By: geoffclare Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1191 Category: Shell and Utilities Type: Omission Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Geoff Clare Organization: The Open Group User Reference: Section: 2.2 Quoting Page Number: 2346 Line Number: 74697 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2018-04-13 14:33 UTC Last Modified: 2018-04-20 14:09 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: The list of special characters in 2.2 is missing '-' and '!' ======================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0003979) geoffclare (manager) - 2018-04-20 14:09 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1191#c3979 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Re: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1191#c3978 The shell cannot have carte blanche to make any character it likes have a special meaning as an extension. Otherwise how are shell script writers supposed to know what characters they need to quote? Are you saying they need to quote everything they don't want treated as special? (Which would be contrary to what's obviously intended by the text that is the subject of this bug.) Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare New Issue 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Name => Geoff Clare 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Organization => The Open Group 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Section => 2.2 Quoting 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Page Number => 2346 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Line Number => 74697 2018-04-13 14:33 geoffclare Interp Status => --- 2018-04-13 14:44 geoffclare Note Added: 0003956 2018-04-19 05:54 shware_systems Note Added: 0003971 2018-04-19 05:55 shware_systems Note Edited: 0003971 2018-04-19 15:32 stephane Note Added: 0003973 2018-04-20 09:52 geoffclare Note Added: 0003975 2018-04-20 13:30 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003976 2018-04-20 13:39 stephane Note Added: 0003977 2018-04-20 13:52 chet_ramey Note Added: 0003978 2018-04-20 14:09 geoffclare Note Added: 0003979 ======================================================================