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Subject: Re: bad math expression: illegal character: "
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On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:02 PM Lawrence Vel=C3=A1zquez <vq@larryv.me> wrote=
:
>
> > On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Artur Renault <Artur.Renault@microsoft.com>
> >
> > while (( "$#" )); do
> >
> > repro.sh:1: bad math expression: illegal character: "
>
> For what it's worth, dash also rejects this. I assume that it and
> zsh are just more strict about what constitutes a math expression.

Does anybody know if this is something we should change for sh
emulation, or is it merely another unspecified POSIX corner-case?