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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 01:44:35 PST, Doug Barton wrote:

> At the same time, I'd also like to see if POSIX has a clear definition
> of "word."

Aha, that's what we should have looked at right in the beginning.  My
take on POSIX.2 3.10.2 (Shell Grammar Rules) is that _word_ may not be
the empty string.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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