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Comment by Joker_vD

4 years ago

Well, writing scripts would be much less painful if $VARNAME did not explode into pieces by default. Alas, this ship has sailed long ago.

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goohle  4 years ago

IMHO, it's possible to add a flag to bash, which will turn on this behavior, so problem can be fixed, but it will diverge bash from POSIX sh a lot.

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