[BusyBox] Some problems with busybox-1.0.0-pre1

Vladimir N. Oleynik dzo at simtreas.ru
Tue Jul 29 14:14:26 UTC 2003


Forward from dash mantainer:

From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>:

 >$ export S=`echo HELLO \"how are you\" JUNK`
 > produces:
 > export: 5: "how: bad variable name


This is the correct behaviour.

export/readonly/alias does not cause special parsing in dash.

If you wish to prevent the word splitting, you must quote it
or use normal assignment:

export S
S=`...`

* End forward *

Eric Spakman wrote:

 > The same busybox config did start correct with the previous ash.

Oh yes. "ash" have more problem for "export VAR=hard/difficult expression"
but trivail do fine sometimes.

I don`t know, why your debian dash work fine.
I geted very fresh debian dash version.
I was very surprised, that at additional opportunities, a code less.



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vodz




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