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dash package

  1. Bug #1908025
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1908025

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Jilles Tjoelker (jilles) wrote :

I agree that this is a useful feature (including that export a=$b does not split words and export a=* does not generate pathnames); FreeBSD sh has had it for a few years: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=84fbdd8ca068ec63c6c9a931303d3811738128cb .

It is specified by https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=351 planned for the next major revision of POSIX.1.