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Re: process substitution in PROMPT_COMMAND


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: process substitution in PROMPT_COMMAND
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:28:38 -0400
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On 8/7/11 6:00 PM, Curtis Doty wrote:
> I've recently refactored my PROMPT_COMMAND function to avoid superfluous
> fork()s. In the body of the function, what was once this line:
> 
>   local jobcount=$(jobs |wc -l)
> 
> is now this:
> 
>   local job jobcount=0
>   while read job
>   do ((jobcount++))
>   done < <(jobs)

As you suspect, the problem is with this part of the function.  It doesn't
really have anything to do with PROMPT_COMMAND, though.  You must be
exporting the function so your PROMPT_COMMAND will work in interactive
subshells, and the problem is there.

> 
> This works fine on bash 4. However, when attempting to use this on an older
> bash 3.00.15(1) host, an error occurs; but only on 2nd or additional
> subshells--not the first login shell!?! I.e. everything works fine, until I
> run bash from bash.
> 
>   bash: foo: line 39: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>   bash: foo: line 39: ` done <<(jobs);'
>   bash: error importing function definition for `foo'
> 
> Am I missing a finer point of redirection from a substituted process? Or is
> something different in bash 3 that I need to work around here?

One of the bugs fixed between bash-3.1 and bash-3.2 concerned formatting
problems with redirections and process substitution -- the construct you
used.  That code is used to decompose functions to pass them through the
environment, and the incorrectly-formed function has a syntax error that
prevents it being imported by the subshell.

Chet


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