Martijn Dekker dixit:
>only happen for real shell assignments (i.e. not even with
>assignment-like arguments to "export" and the like).
No, this is an actual and documented feature, and changing
this would break too many users (even special-casing export,
typeset, etc. is a no-go).
bye,
//mirabilos
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