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Re: splitting/whitespace in expansions of ${*} vs ${*/}
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: splitting/whitespace in expansions of ${*} vs ${*/} |
Date: |
Fri, 7 Apr 2017 19:43:22 -0400 |
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On 4/4/17 3:29 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> There are a few small regressions in the latest devel relative to the
> previous two commits but they're all rather exotic. Again, sorry if this
> is still WIP/too minor:
>
> CTLESC present in output (even with default IFS)
>
> $ set -- 1; unset var; printf ${var-${*:1}} | xxd
> 00000000: 0131 .1
>
> $ set -- 1; unset var; : ${var=${*:1}}; printf "$var" | xxd
> 00000000: 0131 .1
>
> Not splitting (with default IFS):
>
> $ set -- '1 1'; unset a b; printf '<%s>' ${a=$*} ${b=${*:1}}
> <1><1><1 1>
Thanks, these are fixed.
>
> A few more cases below:
I'll look at these.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/