On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 01:19:22PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' > > is involved in quote removal. > > Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Another whole dimension for potential problems!
There is great confusion here, because the OP was so vague and misleading about *everything*. Including which shell was being used. "compat42" and "shopt" are bashisms. They are not present nor relevant in dash. > RTFM dash(1) I don't see any 'compat' keywords... (?) Correct. > STFW https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=dash%20compat42 I don't see 'compat' > anywhere on the first page of hits... (?) > > Where are the above settings documented? In bash(1). They are bash settings. To the best of my knowledge, there is no bash shopt or compat* setting that will change the behavior of quotes in such a profound way as to cause the problem that the OP imagined he had. At this point, I'm still convinced that it was a curly-quote issue. Of course, we'll never know for sure, because the OP is incapable of presenting simple facts like "here is the script which fails" and "here is its output".
