On 8/7/18 1:39 AM, Ilkka Virta wrote:
> The paragraph about assignments could be expanded to say "This applies also
> to regular command-line arguments that look like assignments." or something
> like that.
That's fair.
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On 6.8. 22:45, Chet Ramey wrote:
Yes. Bash has done this since its earliest days. A word that looks like an
assignment statement has tilde expansion performed after unquoted =~ and :~
no matter where it appears on the command line.
Given that options starting with a double-dashes
> On 2018 Aug 6 , at 3:45 p, Chet Ramey wrote:
>
> On 8/6/18 3:09 PM, Clint Hepner wrote:
>
>> Bash Version: 4.4
>> Patch Level: 19
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>>A non-initial unquoted tilde is expanded outside of an assignment.
>> This
>>was raised as a
On 8/6/18 3:09 PM, Clint Hepner wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 19
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> A non-initial unquoted tilde is expanded outside of an assignment.
> This
> was raised as a question on Stack Overflow,
>
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