On 12/25/23 5:00 PM, Seth Sabar wrote:
Hi all,I'm reaching out to report what I believe to be a bug with the *--pretty-print* feature in bash-5.2. From what I can tell, Bash uses the utf-8 character */001* as an escape character. However, when using the pretty-print feature in Bash, this doesn't seem to be considered. So, for example, in a bash script with character */001* the AST representation will contain */001/001*, however, when it's printed via the pretty print feature, this isn't un-escaped.
Thanks for the report. This affects word lists, the word in a case
command, and shell function names. The fix is to dequote those words when
in pretty-printing mode. You could do that for the name in a select
command, too, but that's an invalid identifier to begin with.
Chet
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