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Re: Quoted parameter parsing glitch

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From: Borsenkow Andrej <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Quoted parameter parsing glitch
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:25:37 +0400 (MSD)
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Bart Schaefer wrote:

>
> } Shell should not hang, but please note it is invalid as per POSIX.
> } Double-quotes and braces must match.
>
> Zsh 4 (and ksh) is supposed to accept double-quotes inside ${...} inside
> double-quotes; the braces act as an extra level of quoting so that the
> inner quotes can nest in the outer ones.  I don't know what POSIX says
> about that.
>

As I said - they must match. "${foo:-""}" is valid but "${foo:-"}" - not.
Neither is "${foo:-\"}". You cannot quote braces or double quotes in this
case. They must match (opening - closing).

-andrej

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