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check-non-portable-shell: improve `VAR=val shell-func` detection

The behavior of a one-shot environment variable assignment of the form
"VAR=val cmd" is unspecified according to POSIX when "cmd" is a shell
function. Indeed the behavior differs between shell implementations and
even different versions of the same shell, thus should be avoided.

As such, check-non-portable-shell.pl warns when it detects such usage.
However, a limitation of the check is that it only detects such
invocations when variable assignment (i.e. `VAR=val`) is the first thing
on the line. Thus, it can easily be fooled by an invocation such as:

echo X | VAR=val shell-func

Address this shortcoming by loosening the check so that the variable
assignment can be recognized even when not at the beginning of the line.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

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Eric Sunshine and committed by
Junio C Hamano
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t/check-non-portable-shell.pl
··· 49 49 /\bexport\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=/ and err '"export FOO=bar" is not portable (use FOO=bar && export FOO)'; 50 50 /\blocal\s+[A-Za-z0-9_]*=\$([A-Za-z0-9_{]|[(][^(])/ and 51 51 err q(quote "$val" in 'local var=$val'); 52 - /^\s*([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w*|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and exists($func{$4}) and 52 + /\b([A-Z0-9_]+=(\w*|(["']).*?\3)\s+)+(\w+)/ and !/test_env.+=/ and exists($func{$4}) and 53 53 err '"FOO=bar shell_func" is not portable (use test_env FOO=bar shell_func)'; 54 54 $line = ''; 55 55 # this resets our $. for each file