On 2/21/19 6:04 AM, Wail Yahyaoui wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was reading the Bash reference manual online and I could not find any
> mention that when doing variable assignments there should be no space around
> the equal sign.
The example in the texinfo manual doesn't include spaces:
A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form
NAME=[VALUE]
In addition, the requirement that there be no spaces is implied, since the
assignment statement has to be a single word.
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