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Given

> broken! one=1 two=2 echo $one $two
> 1 2
>

What should the following do?

  one=1 echo two=2 $one $two

Disregarding a UNIX historical mistake, I'd expect
   1 2


> broken! echo one=1
> one=1
>

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broken! echo one=3D1<br>
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