Re: shell quoting

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> [...] suggests that you believe that
> 	foo=bar
> is a command in sh.    It isn't, and never has been.

Perhaps not in some technical sense.  But it is a command in the sense
of "something that can be typed interactively, or otherwise given where
a command-line is expected, to do something useful".

It sounds to me as though you're drawing a distinction between variable
assignments and "command"s in the sense of...I'm not sure what, maybe
conceptually running a program?  I'm having trouble defining "command"
in a way that makes "cd" a command (one of the few commands that
_can't_ be implemented as a separate executable) but "foo=bar" not,
except by arbitrary fiat.

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