Re: shell quoting

[RVP]

On Wed, 9 Sep 2026, Edgar Fuß wrote:

[...]
Another point is that That GNU Monstrosity behaves the way I would (sorry)
have expected.

dash behaves the same way too.

and probably never will, there is no reason to do it

Depending on your mindset, it would follow POLA.

Colour me astonished--at the difference in behaviour among POSIX shells, that
is. Doubles my resolve to _always_ do `local v="$1"' now.

-RVP