On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:53:25PM +0100, Marc Herbert wrote:
>
> Sorry but I am not interested at all in how the current implementation
> works. I am only wondering why it was *designed* like this.
>
> Try to remove your expert hat for one second and take the stance of
> some developer new to th
Marc Herbert writes:
> Sorry but I am not interested at all in how the current implementation
> works. I am only wondering why it was *designed* like this.
A variable can only contain a single string of characters. There is
nothing at all to split.
> "Everything makes sense" is a nice feature
Le 18/08/2010 12:14, Andreas Schwab a écrit :
> Marc Herbert writes:
>> In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
>> thus confusing) quoting.
>
> There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words,
I know but it looks like quoting, because quoting is how you prevent
word sp
Marc Herbert writes:
> Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial
> stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
> thus confusing) quoting.
There is no quoting, the shell just doesn't split into words, which
doesn't make any sense in an assignment.
> Quo
> What should a=* or a=$(echo 1 2) do?
> Assign only the first file or just 1 to a? or result in an error?
Probably result in some error; I do not really care in this initial
stage. In any case it should not perform any *implicit* (and
thus confusing) quoting.
> This hardly seem more consistent
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Marc Herbert wrote:
> Compare:
>
> for a in "$(echo 1 2)"; do echo "x${a}x"; done
> x1 2x
> for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done
> x1x
> x2x
>
> a="$(echo 1 2)"; echo "x${a}x"
> x1 2x
> a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x"
> x1 2x
>
>
>
> Shell quoting
Marc Herbert writes:
>for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done
This applies word splitting on the expansion of $(echo 1 2).
> a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x"
This doesn't.
Andreas.
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Compare:
for a in "$(echo 1 2)"; do echo "x${a}x"; done
x1 2x
for a in $(echo 1 2) ; do echo "x${a}x"; done
x1x
x2x
a="$(echo 1 2)"; echo "x${a}x"
x1 2x
a=$(echo 1 2); echo "x${a}x"
x1 2x
Shell quoting is difficult enough; why is such an inconsistency making
it even more confusi
