Re: BASH Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ version 3.35)

Chet Ramey wrote: This is the Bash FAQ, version 3.35, for Bash version 3.2. [snip FAQ] Shouldn't D1 say something about many (most?) Linux distros that have GNU 'which'? This is of course different from scripts calling into csh and perl scripts. Saying '... is a perl script or C program ...

Bugs pertaining to pathname expansion and field splitting (when IFS is null), caused by use of literal space to separate words generated by "dollar at" expansions

This post is essentially a follow-up to a previous post, initially made just before New Year's, which appears to have been overlooked. After making the original post, I delved into the bash source to determine why I was seeing the behavior described, and what I found convinced me that the behavior