Hello, as reported in [286861], certain expressions may confuse bash so that it is no longer able to evaluate assignments.
[286861] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=286861 I tried to debug it and found that if evalerror (thus longjmp) is called while noeval != 0, it stays nonzero and assignments cease to work. Such expressions are for example: let tmp="foo.a"+0 (only in bash 3.2) let x=(0?(3?4):3) I think we should reset noeval to zero in the evalexp function (or restore expr_stack[0], probably). Regards, -- Tomas Janousek, SW Engineer, Red Hat, Inc.