On 6/11/25 7:51 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
     Date:        Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:09:46 -0400
     From:        Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu>
     Message-ID:  <f01ae1f4-a9c9-419d-8f45-4e4378dcb...@case.edu>

   | That wouldn't have been backwards compatible, so I didn't add quote
   | removal.

Really, in what cases?

In every case. If you don't perform quote removal and then you do, you're
not backwards compatible. The question is whether or not there are any
functions out there using special characters, quoted or not, and I don't
know the answer to that.

In any event, this is a discussion that's way too late for bash-5.3.

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