On 5/30/14, 2:55 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The two words don't seem me to be used interchangeably in the Bash > manual page. "evaluate" is used only for obtaining the value of > "arithmetic evaluations" and "conditional expressions", whereas > "expand" is used for operations that are strictly textual > replacements.
I cribbed the language pretty closely from the Posix standard, which uses `evaluates' in this fashion. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/