On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Gavin Smith wrote:
> "...the Bourne shell does not systematically split variables and
> back-quoted expressions, in particular on the right-hand side of
> assignments and in the argument of case."
Gavin, texi2dvi starts with
/bin/sh
that means it can be *any* shell including dash (POSIX).
You cannot expect bash behaviour then.
Norbert
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