URL:
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Summary: Colons in environment variable identifiers are
unreadable
Project: GNU GRUB
Submitted by: christrenkamp
Submitted on: Sat 05 May 2012 01:49:54 AM GMT
Category: Terminal
Severity: Major
Priority: 5 - Normal
Item Group: Software Error
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name:
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release:
Release: Bazaar - trunk
Reproducibility: Every Time
Planned Release: None
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Details:
If an environment variable has a colon in its identifier, it will be
inaccessible when attempting to read it.
For example, after the user runs 'net_bootp', the environment variable
'net_pxe:dhcp_boot_file' will be set. If the user attempts to read it with
echo '${net_pxe:dhcp_boot_file}', the command will return these errors:
error: $.
error: syntax error.
error: Incorrect command.
error: syntax error.
I've tried various ways to read these variable, but can't find one that works.
I know these variables were meant to be read-only, which is probably why
there's a colon in the identifier, but it would be extremely useful to be able
to read them.
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