Re: Bash error message for unterminated heredoc is unhelpful.

Chet Ramey wrote: > Richard Neill wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> In some cases, bash gives exceptionally unhelpful error messages, of the >> sort "Unexpected end of file". This is next-to-useless as a debugging >> aid, since there is no way to find out where the error really lies. > > For better or wor

Re: Bash error message for unterminated heredoc is unhelpful.

Richard Neill wrote: Dear All, In some cases, bash gives exceptionally unhelpful error messages, of the sort "Unexpected end of file". This is next-to-useless as a debugging aid, since there is no way to find out where the error really lies. For better or worse, bash allows end-of-file to deli

Bash error message for unterminated heredoc is unhelpful.

Dear All, In some cases, bash gives exceptionally unhelpful error messages, of the sort "Unexpected end of file". This is next-to-useless as a debugging aid, since there is no way to find out where the error really lies. I'm using bash version: bash-3.2-7mdv2008.1 Here are 2 shell scripts with e

Re: Regular expression match operation with character classes fails in bash 3.2

John E. Wulff wrote: > I have just updated from "openSUSE 10.2" to openSUSE 11.0" Linux. My > backup shell script > is now broken. I tracked the problen down to the latest version of > "bash". > > The relatively new binary operator =~ does not match a regular > expression which con