From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: tilde expansion after quoted : in assignments
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 10:43:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7axZ264bukuNF9JSoKiK0SdFCeCUk-p8vP_odp0x=j2DQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210430081716.vlez4jbb7c72vorf@chazelas.org>
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 1:18 AM Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org> wrote:
>
> Tilde expansion is only meant to be done after unquoted : per
> POSIX. Though I can't imagine being a problem in practice.
I was expecting this to mean that colons in e.g. $PATH could be
escaped with a backslash, but that's not the case.
Therefore I suppose it's so that one can do
a=${this}\:${that}
without having to worry whether $that begins with a tilde, while
simultaneously allowing ${that} to be whitespace-split or to itself
contain unquoted colons. Although again that seems a pretty weird
case since the only reason to care whether those colons are quoted is
if they are followed by more tildes and I can't imagine what splitting
makes sense in that context.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-30 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-29 23:53 Bug in Functions/Misc/regexp-replace Jacob Menke
2021-04-30 0:40 ` Matthew Martin
2021-04-30 5:56 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 6:51 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 8:17 ` tilde expansion after quoted : in assignments Stephane Chazelas
2021-04-30 17:43 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2021-04-30 20:13 ` Bug in Functions/Misc/regexp-replace Jacob Menke
2021-04-30 21:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-04-30 20:43 ` Bart Schaefer
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