Chet Ramey wrote:
Arithmetic expansion is a Posix invention. It's treated just like every
other expansion: split unless double quoted. There's no compelling
reason to make it behave differently.
I don't want it to behave differently :)
Okay, so it's just "as is", because by consistent desig
On 12/28/10 2:50 PM, Jan Schampera wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> maybe something for old stagers.
>
> Bash (and POSIX, and Korn, ...) do field/word splitting on the result of
> arithmetic expansions. This is fine, the behaviour per se is not a problem
> at all.
>
> However, I wonder about the origina
