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Re: Bash shouldn't perform syntax check on single-quoted strings


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Bash shouldn't perform syntax check on single-quoted strings
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:45:59 -0500
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On 2/5/21 5:15 AM, Oğuz wrote:
   $ echo '
   > ${a+$(|)}
   bash: command substitution: line 7: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
   bash: command substitution: line 7: `|)}'
   bash: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
   >

Reproducible on devel, 5.1.4, and 5.0.17, but the latter handles it better.

Thanks for the report. It's not the parser, or a real `syntax check'; it's
the history code trying to determine which delimiter to use when adding it
to the history list.

And while testing this on devel, I came across another one:

   $ echo $BASH_VERSIbash: xmalloc: stringvec.c:40: cannot allocate
15227146888 bytes (2510848 bytes allocated)
   $
   $ echo $BASH_VERSIOSegmentation fault (core dumped)
   $

I hit tab a few times to get the segfault.

I can't reproduce this.


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