On 8/18/11 9:02 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> The word following the redirection operator in the following descrip-
> tions, unless otherwise noted, is subjected to brace expansion, tilde
> expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expanâ
> sion, quote removal, pathname expansion, and word splitting. If it
> expands to more than one word, bash reports an error.
>
> It seems to leave off variable expansion.
Parameter expansion and variable expansion are the same thing. A variable
is a parameter denoted by a name. The man page is inconsistent in its
usage -- some places it says "parameter and variable expansion" -- but
there's no difference. Posix, for example, does not use the term
variable expansion at all.
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