On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 03:29:51AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	christos
> Date:		Tue Jun  8 03:29:51 UTC 2004
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/bin/sh: expand.c
> 
> Log Message:
> "for i in ${x-a b c}; do echo $i; done" should print "a\nb\nc\n" not "a b c\n"
> like other shells do. mark the expansion for ifs splitting. XXX: linux has a
> very complicated fix for this. I wonder why.

Having discovered the same fix last night, I was wondering if the result
should be affected by quoting inside the {}.
ie what should "for i in ${x-'a b' c}; do echo $i; done" generate?

	David

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