[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.
--w
vodz
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