> Since the expansion of '/' is not defined by POSIX, dash is
> certainly within its rights to abort rather than fail silently.
As Micah points out, IF dash needed to expand the reference containing
the "/" then you would certainly be correct. However, the reference is
contained in a part of an if-statement which is never invoked:
> /bin/sh -c 'if false; then d="${foo/bar}"; fi'
Note the "if false;...". The POSIX spec, in the sections we have quoted
above, is clear that this should NOT be an error, because that reference
is never expanded.
Please re-open this bug so it can be fixed. Thanks!
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