On 10/06/2010 10:03 AM, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
Jeff Green wrote:
% XXX="hello" /bin/echo $XXX
When the shell see's this line, it expands $XXX itself first. It is not
/bin/echo doing the expansion.
Note that if you do the following, it will print hello.
XXX="hello" printenv XXX
The question is then: what do users do with the explanation on the
manpage? I.e. they are not equivalent since the results are not the same.
-jeff
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