Stephane Chazelas wrote: > > That would be a bug. Looking at the code, it takes a different > path for colon just because of the fact that in assignment, > tilde expansion is performed after a colon (as in > PATH=...:~/bin), if : happens to also be an IFS character, it is > therefore not internally /quoted/ at some stage of the > processing and then there's splitting involved later on. (that's > my interpretation after a quick look). There's the same problem > with ~ and = at least:
Thanks for the push in the right direction. This will be fixed for bash-4.0. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
