Variable assignment and spaces

[Michael R Head]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 22:40 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:40:10PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > Is there any good reason why
> > VARNAME = 'string'
> > is not syntactically valid, whereas 
> > VARNAME='string'
> > is?
> 
> I should have added '...within bash'.

It's a form of typing. What if VARNAME is a program (as
in /usr/bin/VARNAME)? 

mike

> 
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