On 2/6/22 6:14 AM, Thorsten Glaser via austin-group-l at The Open Group wrote:
Robert Elz via austin-group-l at The Open Group dixit:
But there is a somewhat weird case that the shells (those for which
this works at all, which is a minority) differ about, that I don't
Which is correct, and why?
Should that even work?! (mksh is one of the shells in which it doesn’t,
and I’m hard-pressed to see why scripts should even be allowed to write
constructs like that.)
Yeah, we're way down the rabbit hole of hypothetical cases here.
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