From: "G.raud" <graud@gmx.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NO-BUG] quoted substring parameter expansion ignores single-quotes in the arg
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:41:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171019104103.7gzflupyi27artlg@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170926034148.ohemy3jubd2nskyj@gmx.com>
Wrong bug report.
In fact the beahviour of dash on "a=\\'a\\'; echo \"\${a%'}\"" is that
of POSIX and of zsh 5. However 'bash --posix', 'mksh -o posix' and
pdksh fail to parse the command and ksh does not remove the quote from
$a.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 05:41:48AM +0200, G.raud wrote:
> Subject: [BUG] quoted substring parameter expansion ignores single-quotes
> in the arg
>
> To test that the single quotes are considered ordinary chars when
> double-quoting the parameter expansion:
>
> $ dash -c "a=\\'a\\'; echo \"\${a%'}\""
>
> The result is surprising and non consistent with a non double-quoted
> expansion where the single-quotes act as quotes:
>
> $ dash -c "a=a%; echo \${a%'%'}"
>
> Additionally the manual states that the arg to substring processing is
> processed as an ordinary word (as probably POSIX too).
--
G.raud Meyer
graud@gmx.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-19 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-26 3:41 [BUG] quoted substring parameter expansion ignores single-quotes in the arg G.raud
2017-10-19 10:41 ` G.raud [this message]
2017-10-21 12:13 ` Jilles Tjoelker
2017-10-25 10:08 ` Martijn Dekker
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