From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id BAA22437 for ; Sat, 22 Jun 1996 01:03:00 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA01587; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:52:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 10:48:10 -0400 From: Chet Ramey To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: quoting bug Cc: stephens@math.ruu.nl, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu In-Reply-To: Message from A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk of Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:17:10 +0100 (BST) (id <6066.199606211417@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk>) Message-ID: <9606211448.AA02695.SM@odin.INS.CWRU.Edu> Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Resent-Message-ID: <"Rquaf1.0.jO.FShon"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1410 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > POSIX requires the SH_WORD_SPLIT behaviour. It also requires field > splitting in normal words, as well as the result of expansions: I'm usually silent here, but I can't let this one by. POSIX.2 explicitly disallows field splitting on words that are not the result of expansions. See section 3.6.5 of POSIX.2-1992. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University Internet: chet@po.CWRU.Edu