On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:55:09AM +0000, Robert Peichaer wrote: > To the contrary what my previous answer might indicate, I don't care > that much either. If you want to explicitely remove the blank, go for > it. Most problems I ever encountered while writing shell code were related to (nested) quoting and unexpected characters (mostly whitespaces).
Leaving the resulting $_libas exactly as one would expect it to be doesn't hurt plus the code's intent is perfectly clear while reading it. See the updated diff.