On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 04:59:01PM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> Note the unbalanced ' within the ` here:
> 
> 	echo `echo 'foo`
> 
> This fails in bash and NetBSD's ksh, but not in NetBSD's sh
> (and neither on Solaris' /bin/sh, /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /bin/ksh).
> 
> Is this expected? No, I haven't checked SUSv3, but my gut feeling tells me 
> our /bin/sh is not right here.
> 
> FWIW, I've discovered this while trying to build pkgsrc/lang/tcl83 on 
> Linux. While I'll fix the package, I do think that our /bin/sh needs a 
> whack over the head. Anybody got a cluebat? :)

I've got several, but the rules for quoting in 'sh' are baroque, and
netbsd's /bin/sh (aka ash - at least once in its history) implementation
will be different from anything else (every one its own rat's nest).

	David

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