-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Andreas Schwab on 4/18/2007 4:01 AM: > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, no, because bash expands *parameters*, not words. So the prefix is >> "<(cat /etc/", and the suffix is ")". > > But that would not be a *strict textual* expansion.
According to 'man bash', brace expansion is documented as being able to expand one word into many. <(...) forms a single word, even when ... contains unquoted spaces. Therefore, strict textual expansion occurred, and there was no syntax error. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJgwE84KuGfSFAYARAgF/AJ0VUlTUe/SoCsHOEKKsNk/D4bQXhwCfbWYU ba0721NvVacYWFWx4ldk4Ng= =PmOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
