On 3/16/18 1:00 PM, marcelpa...@gmail.com wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 12 > Release Status: release > > Description: > compgen -W "wordlist" doesn't split wordlist on $IFS if wordlist contains > unquoted single quotes. For instance, this wordlist, "foo'bar aaa bbb", won't > be split using the default value of IFS: it will be treated as a single word.
Processing the word argument to -W honors shell quoting, in order to provide a simple way to return words containing shell metacharacters and characters in $IFS. There is a sentence to this effect in the texinfo documentation, but that sentence is missing from the manual page. I will add some clarifying text and make sure it appears in the man page. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/