Beware of bash 3.1

Callum Lerwick seg at haxxed.com
Sat Apr 29 04:14:19 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 22:07 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> In my bash addled brain.. I would say it is a bug. Expanding out data
> that is being done in an EOF does not look in any way sh/ksh/etc
> compliant.. and just prone to breaking too many things.

Yeah I now realize I've hit this before, with people putting config
files inside specs instead of sourcing them. Icky. Several layers of
variable/macro expansion is fun... (NOTABUG in bash 3.1 after all...)
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