Problems with ash-20040127-3 (Attn: bash maintainer)

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Fri Jul 8 01:58:00 GMT 2005


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According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/7/2005 6:34 PM:
> I suspect this may actually be a bug in bash, since single
> quotes ought to stop it from trying to expand variable references.  This
> only happens when the single quotes are inside a shell substitution (i.e.,
> "echo '${'" works, but "echo `echo '${'`" doesn't).

I just re-read POSIX on quoting, and agree with your interpretation - I
will file an upstream bug report.

- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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