Mike Frysinger wrote:
> testing with bash-3.2p17 here ...
>
> looking at these statements:
> K=dvb0.net A=${K#dvb} echo "$A"
> K=dvb0.net A=${K#dvb} ; echo "$A"
> K=dvb0.net A=${K#dvb} eval echo '$A'
>
> shouldnt "0.net" always be displayed ? looks like A is always set properly
> to "0.net", but in the first statement, $A gets expanded before the variable
> assignments are processed
As Andreas said, variable assignments preceding a command name are
deferred until the rest of the words in the command are expanded.
Chet
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