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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 14:58:41 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

   Kind of annoying that wordexp(3) only supports $VAR while GNU's env -S extension only supports ${VAR}.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 15:19:00 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     But well wordexp(3) is quite an ugly function anyway so would be better to roll a parser, I just already hate the idea of dealing with quotes and brackets…

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     Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 23:40:26 JST Erin 💽✨

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     @lanodan I find it funny that every wordexp implementation I'm aware of other than glibc implements the logic by
     
     ... Wait for it ...
     
     Shelling out to /bin/sh
     
     (Or, incomprehensibly, perl on macOS)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 23:42:38 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Erin 💽✨
     @erincandescent musl also does that, in fact POSIX expects most implementations will use /bin/sh