Re: feature request : at ' unexpected end of fille ' error msg append also the still-open direcrive

[alex xmb sw ratchev]

( the fix was run=" ${*:- : } "

On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 3:51 PM alex xmb sw ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 3:04 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
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>> On 8/21/24 6:42 AM, alex xmb sw ratchev wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 9:43 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu
>> > <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
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>> >     On 8/16/24 6:04 PM, alex xmb sw ratchev wrote:
>> >      > aand .. chet , do u think this error on ' ' empty alias is right
>> , or
>> >      > rather update to that it doesnt error
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>> >     If you give me a small reproducer, I'll look.
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>> > i couldnt
>> > the problem was that an empty alias caused the error
>> > on a new .bash file , i tried simply such but it didnt error
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>> Well, if you have something that reproduces the problem and doesn't have
>> a lot of other stuff to obscure it, let me know.
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> thank you , sir ..
> i copied problematic script
> removed one cryptic function
> and looks not complicated anymore ..
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> shopt ..
> aliases_array=( .. )
> alias -- thatarray@
> func check
> check && run
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> thats the last elem in the array
> run=" $* "
> .. the problemic ( when run )
> ( is the only element that uses any $ dollarsign var , others are like
> plain text )
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> bash empty_alias_error.bash  # to run
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> empty_alias_error.bash: line 39: syntax error: unexpected end of file
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> thank you ..
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> --
>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>>                  ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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