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Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.

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From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 22:43:14 +0100
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On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:55:36 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But it is _also_ a bug in zsh; adding zsh-workers accordingly.
> 
> $ zsh -cvx 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f'
> +zsh:1> f=' val' e=''
> +zsh:1> echo ' val'
>  val
> 
> Oops - zsh only passed one argument to echo, with a leading space,
> instead of passing an empty argument and letting echo supply the space.

That's not a bug, you haven't enabled the SH_WORD_SPLIT option.  Try
in sh compatibility mode.

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References:
- Re: Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
  - From: Eric Blake

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