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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-08-23 20:04:12 +1000
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2013-08-23 20:04:12 +1000
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[EXPAND] Propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:27:24PM +0000, Todor Vlaev wrote:
> 
> While playing around with parameter expansion I noticed that the
> following didn't work in dash  (dash 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1) as compared
> to bash even though I believe it should be POSIX-compliant:
> 
> my_str=swan; last_char="${my_str#${my_str%?}}"; echo ${last_char}
> 
> If the double quotes are removed, the last character is printed correctly.
> 
> At a quick glance through the commits after the 0.5.5.1 release I saw
> the following bug fix. Could it be related?
> 
> 0d7d66039b614b642c775432fd64aa8c11f9a64d
> [EXPAND] Fix quoted pattern patch breakage

We need to propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar as otherwise a nested
parameter expansion within subevalvar may be expanded incorrectly.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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+2013-08-23  Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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+	* Propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar.
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 2012-07-20  Kimo Rosenbaum <kimor79@yahoo.com>
 
 	* Fix typo for wait in manual.