On 4/25/17 10:10 AM, scra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> When using any functionality that triggers shquote the
> comma character is escaped with a backslash which bash
> doesn't strip when the quoted text is reused, while
> tilde isn't despite it causing home directory expansion.
The documentation states "reused as shell input", which isn't quite the
same as the output of a word expansion. The backslash quoting the comma,
which serves to inhibit brace expansion, is removed just fine if the
string is used as shell input.
As for the tilde:
$ echo $(printf "%q\n" "~" "a,b")
\~ a\,b
$ eval echo $(printf "%q\n" "~" "a,b")
~ a,b
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
4.3.48(30)-release
The same explanation suffices for why the tilde is quoted with a backslash.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
