On 7/19/20 1:47 AM, Oğuz wrote:
> By the way,
> wouldn't it be better if the same tilde expansion rules as with assignment
> statements was applied to parameter expansions that assign default values?
> Like,
>
> unset foo
> echo ${foo=~:~otheruser}
>
> assigns `/home/oguz:~otheruser' to `foo' regardless of whether `otheruser'
> is a valid login name for an existing user.
Maybe, but Posix says this isn't a variable assignment context, as POSIX
defines variable assignments, and technically the shell shouldn't perform
tilde expansions after `=' or `:' at all. You could argue that bash has a
bug here in that it expands the tilde after the `='.
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