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SubjectRe: The /tmp and modules_install saga
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"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@it.uc3m.es> writes:

|> "A month of sundays ago Andreas Schwab wrote:"
|> >
|> > |> Without the quotes, it would expand to
|> > |>
|> > |> ALLMODES=a.o b.o c.o ...
|> > |>
|> > |> which means: (1) set environment variable ALLMODES to a.o, (2) execute
|> > |> command b.o with args c.o ...
|> >
|> > Wrong. Variable assignments aren't subject to word splitting.
|>
|> Don't rely on it:
|>
|> bash$ eval "hi=ho `echo \"; echo $hi\"`"
|> ho

This is something completely different. Here there is exactly one
variable assignment (hi=ho) where word splitting would not make any
difference if it were done (assuming default $IFS).

--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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