On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 02:54:12PM +0100, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I noticed that backtick -C does not work for preceding spaces, but > >import -C does. Is it intentional? > > -C | -c | -d | -s only make sense when backtick is performing the > substitution itself, i.e. with the -E option (which is deprecated). > > In your examples, backtick puts the value into the environment, and > you perform the substitution explicitly with import. Value > transformations are only done at substitution time, so backtick's -C > option doesn't do anything. > I should probably print a warning or error message when value > transformations are used without -E, but then again, -E is going > away soon. Ah yes, now I remember that I've stumbled onto it before. Not a good sign, either I'm getting old or spending little time with execline :) -- Vallo
