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From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Quoted closing brace in variable default expansion
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:28:41 +0059	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDECAE1.9010607@gigawatt.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101113164147.GB5535@burratino>

On 13/11/10 17:41, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Harald van Dijk wrote:
>>    $ dash -c 'echo "${x:-"}"}"'
>>    dash: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>
>   http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221
>   note #399

Thanks, that helps to clarify. Unfortunately, the valid alternative 
given there:

   sh -c 'echo "${x:-\}}"'

seemingly incorrectly prints \} with dash and with bash, so that is a 
non-option at this time for me.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-13 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-13 16:28 Quoted closing brace in variable default expansion Harald van Dijk
2010-11-13 16:41 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-13 17:29   ` Harald van Dijk [this message]
2010-11-19 13:54     ` Herbert Xu
2010-11-20  0:43       ` Harald van Dijk
2010-11-20 20:57         ` Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn
2010-11-21 13:42         ` [PATCH] [PARSER] Remove backslash before } in double-quotes in variable Jilles Tjoelker
2010-11-21 16:35           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-11-23 18:46           ` Harald van Dijk
2011-03-10  8:59           ` Herbert Xu
2011-03-11 18:32             ` Jilles Tjoelker
2010-11-13 17:51   ` Quoted closing brace in variable default expansion Jilles Tjoelker

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