On 2020-07-27 10:06, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
On Jul 27, 2020, at 1:31 AM, Dale R. Worley
wrote:
Interesting. The documentation for 4.2.53(1) says this about
parameter
assignments generally, with no special rules for compound assignments:
All
values undergo tilde expansion, para
Hello!
I have a question about the following behavior:
$ Z='a b'
$ A=(X=$Z)
$ declare -p A
declare -a A=([0]="X=a b")
$ A=(X$Z)
$ declare -p A
declare -a A=([0]="Xa" [1]="b")
I find it surprising that no word splitting is performed in the first
compound assignment. I realize that skipping word