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Re: quoting bug

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: stephens@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bruce Stephens)
Subject: Re: quoting bug
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 16:03:50 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199606211355.PAA03147@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from Bruce Stephens at "Jun 21, 96 03:55:40 pm"
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> >>>>> "Zefram" == Zefram  <A.Main@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> zsh fails to break up strings properly where other shells do the
> >> right thing.
> 
> > setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT
> 
> What does POSIX say?

Zsh must be invoked as sh/ksh if you want POSIX.  Even is sh/ksh mode there
are some minor incompatibilities between zsh and POSIX but these rarely
cause problems.  Also the zsh documentation does not claim that zsh
conforms to POSIX.  On my computer /bin/sh is a link to zsh and it works
fine.

Zoltan

Follow-Ups:
- Re: quoting bug, and comparisons with ksh93
  - From: Bruce Stephens

References:
- Re: quoting bug
  - From: Bruce Stephens

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