18 Sep
2024
18 Sep
'24
7:08 p.m.
On 9/17/24 9:40 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Unfamiliar, maybe, but even the Bourne shell had `set -k'.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
The change was
motivated by the rc shell,
which treated x=y anywhere on the command line (not just at the
beginning of a command) as a variable assignment.
That is plain broken,