On 2023-03-10 15:31, Theo Buehler wrote:
While I have no opinion on whether this behavior makes sense, can or should be changed, I'm quite confident that this is not a bug.
Well, since i got a solution that also solves another problem that i had;
i can excuse the original issue and consider it as solved. Though, the issue i had should be addressed via noting the single colon usage in the man pages or documented somewhere, or to simply reproduce what other shells do, or alternatively whatever POSIX specifies.