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Description: Bourne Again SHell bug reports.
 

Missing "#if defined (JOB_CONTROL)" line in execute_cmd.c. 
  Configuration Information: OS: linux-gnu Compiler: gcc 4.8 Bash Version: 4.2 Release Status: release Description, Fix: I was just compiling bash and (due, I think, to an error on my part) ended up with a configuration for which JOB_CONTROL was not defined. As a result, I uncovered two bugs:... more »
By Brooks Moses  - Jun 17 - 3 new of 3 messages    

`printf -v foo ""` does not set foo= 
  simple test code: unset foo printf -v foo "" echo ${foo+set} that does not display "set". seems to have been this way since the feature was added in bash-3.1. -mike
By Mike Frysinger  - Jun 17 - 5 new of 5 messages    

corrupted input after size function (input that's not recorded by bash) 
  I have a small function in my bashrc: function showsize () {\ local s=$(stty size); local o="(${s% *}x${s#* })"; s="${#o}";\ echo -n $o; while ((s-- > 0));do echo -ne "\b"; done; \ ...export -f showsize trap showsize SIGWINCH --- That has the effect of showing me my current window size... more »
By Linda Walsh  - Jun 13 - 12 new of 12 messages    

bug batch 
  Hello, Clearing out the remainder of my "maybe bugs" file, in no particular order. 1. Arithmetic assignment precedence / associativity. Most shells (and GCC) consider not grouping the assignment in a situation like this an error. Bash tolerates it, apparently reversing associativity: : $((1 == x = 1)) # Error in dash/ksh/mksh/zsh/etc... more »
By Dan Douglas  - Jun 13 - 5 new of 5 messages    

regex confusion -- not matching; think it should? 
  The trace looks aprolike this: ... ^([a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0-9_]+)=(.+) [[:space:]]+[a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0- 9_]+=.+.*$ ]] ... (#138 is all 1 line) ---- the source code looks like this: my id='[a-zA-Z][-a-zA-Z0-9_]+' while ((${#bond_ops}>3)); do if [[ $bond_ops =~ ^($id)=(.+)[[:space:]]+$id=.+. *$ ]]; then... more »
By Linda Walsh  - Jun 12 - 8 new of 8 messages    

\H in PS1 adds the hostname without the domain to the prompt 
  Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: Machine: x86_64 OS: linux-gnu Compiler: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-lin ux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale ' -DPACKAGE='bash'... more »
By Sascha Gaspar  - Jun 12 - 2 new of 2 messages    

currently doable? Indirect notation used w/a hash 
  I was wondering if I was missing some syntax somewhere... but I wanted to be able to pass the name of a hash in and store stuff in it and later retrieve it... but it looks like it's only possible with an eval or such? Would be nice....(??)*sigh*
By Linda Walsh  - Jun 9 - 37 new of 37 messages    

noclobber vs command not found 
  Hello noclobber fans. It was a cheery day, until during an aptitude "safe-upgrade", Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... (gtk-update-icon-cache:13613): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Cannot open pixbuf loader module file '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-p ixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache ': No... more »
By jida...@jidanni.org  - Jun 8 - 3 new of 3 messages    

don't just seek to the next line if the script has been edited 
  Let's say you are running a script that is doing a loop while ... echo Enter name; read name; .. During which the script gets edited on the disk by somebody. Well shouldn't bash, when it goes back to the disk to read some next part of the script, first do some sort of check to tell if the script has... more »
By jida...@jidanni.org  - Jun 7 - 14 new of 14 messages    

typeset -p & manpage on it are confusing w/rt funcs 
  I wanted to test to see if a function was defined and looking at typeset in the bash man page, I see typeset ... The -p option will display the attributes and values of each name. When -p is used with name arguments, additional options are ignored. When -p is... more »
By Linda Walsh  - Jun 6 - 3 new of 3 messages    

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