Thank you for pointing out that section of the manual. Surely this explains the behaviour...
Cheers, Balazs > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:14:19 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: bash: Word splitting but when? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> the ouput of $(echo '1 2 3 x') should go through word splitting and x > > Word splitting does not occur in the right-hand side of an assignment. > From the manual: > > A variable may be assigned to by a statement of the form > > name=[value] > > If value is not given, the variable is assigned the null string. > All values undergo tilde expansion, parameter and variable expan- > sion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, and quote > removal (see EXPANSION below). If the variable has its integer > attribute set, then value is evaluated as an arithmetic expres- > sion even if the $((...)) expansion is not used (see Arithmetic > Expansion below). Word splitting is not performed, with the > exception of "$@" as explained below under Special Parameters. > Pathname expansion is not performed. Assignment statements may > also appear as arguments to the alias, declare, typeset, export, > readonly, and local builtin commands. > > Brian > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > _________________________________________________________________ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
