e= q='?' a='*' t=texttext s='ast*que?non' p='/et[c]/' w='a b c' b='{{(#)}}' h='##' failures='' ok='' testcase() { code="$1" expected="$2" oIFS="$IFS" eval "$code" IFS='|' result="$#|$*" IFS="$oIFS" if [ "x$result" = "x$expected" ]; then ok=x$ok else failures=x$failures echo "For $code, expected $expected actual $result" fi } # We follow original ash behaviour for quoted ${var+-=?} expansions: # a double-quote in one switches back to unquoted state. # This allows expanding a variable as a single word if it is set # and substituting multiple words otherwise. # It is also close to the Bourne and Korn shells. # POSIX leaves this undefined, and various other shells treat # such double-quotes as introducing a second level of quoting # which does not do much except quoting close braces. testcase 'set -- "${p+"/et[c]/"}"' '1|/etc/' testcase 'set -- "${p-"/et[c]/"}"' '1|/et[c]/' testcase 'set -- "${p+"$p"}"' '1|/etc/' testcase 'set -- "${p-"$p"}"' '1|/et[c]/' testcase 'set -- "${p+"""/et[c]/"}"' '1|/etc/' testcase 'set -- "${p-"""/et[c]/"}"' '1|/et[c]/' testcase 'set -- "${p+"""$p"}"' '1|/etc/' testcase 'set -- "${p-"""$p"}"' '1|/et[c]/' testcase 'set -- "${p+"\@"}"' '1|@' testcase 'set -- "${p+"'\''/et[c]/'\''"}"' '1|/et[c]/' test "x$failures" = x