++ On Mon, Jul 28, 2025, 4:52 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> On 7/28/25 4:29 AM, Oğuz wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > >> The quotation marks don't appear to matter, but > >> the trailing $ does. > > > > `$!' works as well, when there's no most recent asynchronous job: > > > > $ printf '<%s>\n' $(seq 3)$! > > <1 > > 2 > > 3> > > $ > > > > I think the problem is right here: > > > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/subst.c?h=devel#n11524 > > The function `param_expand' writes 0 to `*expanded_something' when > > `string' ends with `$' or `$!' and there's no async job, and bash > > forgets all the expansions it has done in that word. Maybe it was > > supposed to be called with the address of a local copy of > > `expanded_something'? There's a variable named `local_expanded' in > > that function that seems to be unused... > > Good catch, that is the right approach. > > Chet > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ >
