[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: ia64 > OS: linux > Compiler: gcc -I/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.1 > -L/usr/src/packages/BUILD/bash-3.1/../readline-5.1 > Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='ia64' > -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='ia64-suse-linux' -DCONF_VENDOR='suse' > -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -I. -I. -I./include -I./lib -O2 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall > -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -DRECYCLES_PIDS -Wall -pipe -g > -fbranch-probabilities > uname output: Linux sykes 2.6.16-rc5-git9-2-default #1 SMP Tue Mar 7 14:56:34 > UTC 2006 ia64 ia64 ia64 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: ia64-suse-linux > > Bash Version: 3.1 > Patch Level: 11 > Release Status: release > > Description: > A backslash inside `...` leads to a parse error when it is the > last character in a single quoted string. > > Repeat-By: > $ cat x.sh > foo `bar 'a\'` > $ sh x.sh > x.sh: line 1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' > x.sh: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Applying the updated patch 10 as distributed here and on ftp.case.edu would have fixed this problem. (No, I have received no answer from the folks who run ftp.gnu.org in response to my attempts to replace the version of patch 10 there.) z3(1)$ cat x5 foo `bar 'a\'` z3(1)$ ./bash ./x5 ./x5: line 1: bar: command not found ./x5: line 1: foo: command not found z3(1)$ ./bash --version GNU bash, version 3.1.11(9)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.3.0) Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. However, in the long run, it's hopeless to try and recursively parse quoted strings and shell expansions inside `` and retain backwards compatibility with the Bourne shell, despite what POSIX says. The problem only gets worse when considering double-quoted strings. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live Strong. No day but today. Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash