The following is a bug report sent to the Debian bug system. I can reproduce the problem with the latest (5/11/2007) release.
------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:10:22 +0200 From: Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#445992: ksh: an unmatched [ yields a second [ Package: ksh Version: 93s+20070628-1 Severity: normal As shown below, with Debian's ksh93, an unmatched [ yields a second [ and this is incorrect (other POSIX shells and even ksh93 under Mac OS X do not have this problem). vin:~> ksh93 --version version sh (AT&T Research) 1993-12-28 s+ vin:~> ksh93 -c 'echo a[' a[[ vin:~> ksh --version zsh 4.3.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) vin:~> ksh -c 'echo a[' a[ vin:~> bash -c 'echo a[' a[ vin:~> dash -c 'echo a[' a[ And under Mac OS X: prunille:~> ksh --version version sh (AT&T Labs Research) 1993-12-28 p prunille:~> ksh -c 'echo a[' a[ - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ksh depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ksh recommends no packages. - -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
