On 7/16/19 3:03 PM, astian wrote: > Ah, thanks for the clarification. I wonder if the excerpt below (particularly > the last sentence) would be the relevant wording of POSIX, i.e. that some > shells might interpret the command as the concatenation of a double-quoted > string, the unquoted $i, and another double-quoted string:
That's the historical Bourne shell behavior, and I'm pretty sure that ksh-88, at least, preserves it. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/