On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 6:44 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> Thanks for the report. It's probably not what you intend, but it's the way > bash has done things all the way back to bash-4.0 when the additional > variable attributes were introduced (and further back if you consider the > integer attribute). > The way bash does it is that the word is expanded (to `X') and that value > is assigned to a. That becomes the value of the expansion. The conversion > is then performed, at a lower layer, on the assignment. > > This should only affect this particular parameter expansion involving > variables where this kind of conversion takes place at assignment time. I > think it would be reasonable to change the result to the final value of > the variable for the next version and make the new behavior dependent on > the shell compatibility level. > I agree. Thanks > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
