Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'm trying to determine whether POSIX allows for utilizing of variables in > simple commands that were defined earlier in the same command ... in other > words, whether this snippet: > unset A B > A="moo" B="$A more" > echo $A , $B > should display moo twice or just once: > moo , moo more > moo , more
"Each variable assignment shall be expanded [...] prior to assigning the value." That means that each assignment is supposed to be expanded _and_ performed in the same step while iterating over them. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
