On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 12:53:17PM +0200, Roland Illig wrote: > >>really old shells will explode on your current version, too, but we > >>really needn't to consider those. > > Why? Because of possible backslashes? > they do some interpretation of the expanded variables. iirc, backticks were a problem, so i suppose backslashes might have been, too. bash1 did this and i suppose other equally old shell did. posix certainly does not contradict this behavior (usually they avoid specifying something that was totally braindamaged in some particular implementation), but i think we can still rely on sane behavior in any halfways modern shell.
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