Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:51:50 +0000
From: "Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at The Open Group"
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Message-ID: <20220128095150.GB29095@localhost>
| Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote, on 28 Jan 2022:
| > result="$(command ; e=$?; print '.' ; exit $?)"
| result="$(some_command && printf '.')" || exit
What's the obsession you all seem to have with putting the period in quotes?
Why? You don't have printf in quotes (you could), not even $? (in the exit,
where it might be needed if IFS happens to contain digits), and while they're
not useful for anything, the quotes around the command substitution I kind of
understand the reason for, but around a . ?? Do you also write main'.'c
(or 'main.c') ??
kre
