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From: Harald van Dijk <harald@gigawatt.nl>
Subject: Re: Quoted closing brace in variable default expansion
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:28:41 +0059
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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.