From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 22:43:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803224314.607ffb9b@pws-pc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C588248.9050807@redhat.com>
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:55:36 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> But it is _also_ a bug in zsh; adding zsh-workers accordingly.
>
> $ zsh -cvx 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
> +zsh:1> f=' val' e=''
> +zsh:1> echo ' val'
> val
>
> Oops - zsh only passed one argument to echo, with a leading space,
> instead of passing an empty argument and letting echo supply the space.
That's not a bug, you haven't enabled the SH_WORD_SPLIT option. Try
in sh compatibility mode.
--
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-03 22:24 UTC|newest]
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2010-08-03 20:55 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-03 21:21 ` Mikael Magnusson
2010-08-03 21:28 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-04 15:18 ` John Lumby
2010-08-04 15:27 ` Eric Blake
2010-08-04 17:06 ` John Lumby
2010-08-03 21:43 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2010-08-05 22:15 ` Chet Ramey
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