Re: [PATCH 1/2] test-lib: quote TRASH_DIRECTORY

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Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2016 12:51:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:53:49AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> 
>> We always quote $TRASH_DIRECTORY to guard against funky path names. Do
>> so in one more spot
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  t/test-lib.sh | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
>> index 0b47eb6..8957916 100644
>> --- a/t/test-lib.sh
>> +++ b/t/test-lib.sh
>> @@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ case "$TRASH_DIRECTORY" in
>>  /*) ;; # absolute path is good
>>   *) TRASH_DIRECTORY="$TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY/$TRASH_DIRECTORY" ;;
>>  esac
>> -test ! -z "$debug" || remove_trash=$TRASH_DIRECTORY
>> +test ! -z "$debug" || remove_trash="$TRASH_DIRECTORY"
> 
> I don't think this does anything. The shell doesn't do whitespace
> splitting on the right-hand side of a variable assignment:
> 
>   $ foo='lots of spaces and "!'\'' funky chars'
>   $ bar=$foo
>   $ echo "$bar"
>   lots of spaces and "!' funky chars
> 
> Of course we _do_ need quotes when we refer to $remove_trash as an
> argument (as with "$bar" above), but it looks like we do so correctly
> everywhere.

I'm used to that behavior, yes, but:

- Is this true for every shell that we support?
- Having quotes there, too, is a good reminder to have it also where
necessary.

Michael
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