On Wednesday 25 February 2009 16:21:47 Chet Ramey wrote: > > > Yep, it's a bug. Try the attached patch; it works for me. > > > > this introduces a bug of it's own though :/. you can no longer use > > ctrl+c to escape from unbalanced quotes. > > > > - type: echo ' > > - hit enter > > - hit ctrl+c over and over > > - bash still waits for the ' to be balanced > > Still not sure what extra stuff Linux runs to make this only fail there, > but here's a patch that should fix it.
seems to fix the issue on my system, thanks -mike