Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Elia Pinto <gitter.spiros@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Instead of making the shell expand 00* and invoke 'echo' with it,
>> and then capturing its output as command substitution, just use
>> the result of expanding 00* directly.
>
> This is not actually how it happens. cover=`echo *` expands the * before
> the assignment to $cover, while cover="*" assigns a litteral * to
> $cover.
>
> Then, when you use $cover, the variable is expanded to * and then it is
> expanded to filenames here:
>
>> mv $cover cover-to-edit.patch &&
>
> On the other hand, this instance of $cover is quoted, hence the
> *-expansion won't happen:
>
>> perl -pe "s/^From:/$header: extra\@address.com\nFrom:/" cover-to-edit.patch >"$cover" &&
>
> So, I believe this patch is not correct.
I think this tried to mimick 6ffd3ec8 but the context covered by
that commit is different from the right hand side of an assignment.
You are right that [10/10] changes where the expansion happens and
is not a faithful conversion. The result may be the same, though ;-)
If anything, I think
- mv $cover cover-to-edit.patch &&
+ mv "$cover" cover-to-edit.patch &&
is a prudent thing to do, but that is orthogonal to what 10/10
tried to do.
>
> OTOH, patches 1 to 9 look good to me.
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