Re: authentication errors.

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:46 -0400, Christian Pearce wrote:
> $(expr) and ${word} is valid shell how do you differentiate?
> 
> bash-2.05b$ test=$(echo test)
> bash-2.05b$ echo $test
> test
> bash-2.05b$ test=${test}     
> bash-2.05b$ echo $test
> test
> bash-2.05b$ test=${test1}
> bash-2.05b$ echo $test

The same way Make does, by requiring you escape shell variables in
strings--it would remove the ambiguity and permit more useful error
messages and syntax checking.

Wil
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