On 22 December 2011 15:58, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > Shell assignments do not need quoting, since they are not subject to > argument splitting or filename expansion in the first place.
You're right, that was an incorrectly chosen example. > Blindly requiring double-quoting of all shell variables and command > substitutions can actually introduce problems if you care about > portability to ancient shells Is there really a need to care about anything but POSIX compliant shells? Alex
