-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Igor Pechtchanski on 7/7/2005 6:34 PM: > I suspect this may actually be a bug in bash, since single > quotes ought to stop it from trying to expand variable references. This > only happens when the single quotes are inside a shell substitution (i.e., > "echo '${'" works, but "echo `echo '${'`" doesn't).
I just re-read POSIX on quoting, and agree with your interpretation - I will file an upstream bug report. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzdv884KuGfSFAYARAs5mAKCxqIZ64I+Cv4860l6F6/zZYMcEwwCg1p0m a8CzDTIhe/9RiKVk1U+l+iA= =fbIo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/