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Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment

To: Don Cragun <dcragun@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Invalid shell assignments in environment
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:18:10 -0400
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Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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Don Cragun wrote:

> In practice, most system do not have a problem here.

Yes, I understand.  The majority of the systems I care about :-)
don't have a problem with this.  We can safely say that shell variable
names are composed of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits,
and the underscore as they appear in ASCII.

Chet


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