Marc Herbert <marc.herb...@gmail.com> writes: > Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial > stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and > thus confusing) quoting.
There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words, which doesn't make any sense in an assignment. > Quoting makes a difference in some places but no difference in other > places (because of some kind of "implicit quoting"). There is a big difference between $ a=";" and $ a=; Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
