Re: Change in behavior

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/13/16 10:08 AM, Vladimir Marek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> by coincidence I found change in behavior in how bash treats syntax
> error. Can you see the difference on your machines too?
> 
> $ cat configure
> set -o posix
> echo ${0.8}
> echo after
> 
> $ bash a.sh
> 3.2.52(1)-release
> a.sh: line 3: ${0.8}: bad substitution
> after
> 
> $ bash a.sh
> 4.3.46(1)-release
> build/i86/configure: line 3: ${0.8}: bad substitution
> after
> 
> $ bash a.sh
> 4.4.5(1)-release
> build/i86/configure: line 3: ${0.8}: bad substitution
> 
> 
> I also tried on Gentoo and bash 4.4.5 didn't run the last line similarly
> to my tests. Is it intended change?

Posix says a word expansion error shall cause a non-interactive shell to
exit:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_08_01

Bash posix mode changed as the result of this report:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2015-08/msg00013.html

Chet
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