On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:39:14PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:15 PM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:37 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't think this is an error. The program can tell which you meant by > > > the number of arguments. POSIX lays out some rules here (from "man > > > 1posix test" on my system, but I'm sure you can find it online): > > > > I intentionally didn't focus on or mention POSIX in my response > > because I wanted to represent the Real World reason why "x$var" is > > such a common idiom. [...] > > I probably should have done a better job in my original response to > Taylor to make it clear that I was talking about Real World (even if > old) rather than POSIX. Yeah. I guess I'm questioning how current that Real World view is. It hasn't bitten us yet, though we do seem to do the "x" thing in some places. And most of our shell code is in the test suite, which sees pretty tame filenames. -Peff
