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Re: [doc] "sh_word_split nothing to do with word splitting"?

On Mar 11,  9:44am, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
} Subject: [doc] "sh_word_split nothing to do with word splitting"?
}
} SH_WORD_SPLIT (-y) <K> <S>
}      Causes field splitting to be performed on unquoted parameter
}      expansions.  Note that this option has nothing to do with word
}      splitting.  (See *note Parameter Expansion::.)

What this means to say:

This option applies to field splitting within an expanded shell word,
not to splitting a command line into shell words during parsing.
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