From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Quoted parameter parsing glitch
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:25:37 +0400 (MSD) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.33.0108222223100.5012-100000@itsrm2.mow.siemens.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1010822165904.ZM24041@candle.brasslantern.com>
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Bart Schaefer wrote:
>
> } Shell should not hang, but please note it is invalid as per POSIX.
> } Double-quotes and braces must match.
>
> Zsh 4 (and ksh) is supposed to accept double-quotes inside ${...} inside
> double-quotes; the braces act as an extra level of quoting so that the
> inner quotes can nest in the outer ones. I don't know what POSIX says
> about that.
>
As I said - they must match. "${foo:-""}" is valid but "${foo:-"}" - not.
Neither is "${foo:-\"}". You cannot quote braces or double quotes in this
case. They must match (opening - closing).
-andrej
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-22 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-22 15:54 Bart Schaefer
2001-08-22 16:21 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-08-22 16:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-22 18:25 ` Borsenkow Andrej [this message]
2001-08-26 17:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2001-08-26 17:59 ` Borsenkow Andrej
2001-08-27 7:22 ` Bart Schaefer
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