On 8/3/10 4:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding autoconf to document some shell bugs] > > On 08/03/2010 02:32 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Interesting shell unportability: >> >> $ bash -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> $ ksh -c 'f=" val" e=; echo "$e"$f' >> val >> >> ksh93, dash, zsh all do it like ksh. Is that a bug in bash? > > Yes; adding bug-bash accordingly. According to POSIX: Thanks; this was an easy fix. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@xxxxxxxx http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
