On 8/3/10 4:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs] > > On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Interesting shell unportability: >> >> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> >> ksh93, dash, zsh all do it like ksh. Is that a bug in bash? > > Yes; adding bug-bash accordingly. According to POSIX:
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