On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2016, at 10:05 AM, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: >> Wow, shell quoting is just fucked up crazy. I was mostly using unquoted >> $@ my whole life. And here I thought I knew enough not to screw up a >> simple script, > > It is common knowledge to always double-quote $@, i.e. "$@", in > Bourne/Posix shell. >
Bash really is a special little snowflake. The space trimming feature, as I recently discovered is made available for all but the implicit REPLY. $ read -r <<<" TEST "; printf '<%s>\n' "$REPLY" < TEST > $ read -r REPLY <<<" TEST "; printf '<%s>\n' "$REPLY" <TEST> As a heavy user of bash and freenode #bash padawan, I must say that I'd be very in favor of keeping bash out of suckless. It's a good learning instrument wrt this kind of nitpickery which is useful for discussing the C standard, but it's definitely not suckless. cheers! mar77i
