I notice that 'dash' fails on many scripts that ran okay with
the traditional Bourne shell 'sh'.
On closer examination I find that it does not conform to any
of the man pages that I've been able to find for 'dash'.
Should I create a problem report? Where should I send it?
The particular version is dash-0.5.5.1 running on
FreeBSD xi.home 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0:
Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009
I have a report that the same trouble occurs in the 'dash'
as shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
The problem is that 'dash' bombs out with an empty list in:
if ...
then
list
elif ...
then
list
fi
or in:
if ...
then
list
else
list
fi
The latter gives for example:
Syntax error: "else" unexpected.
Yet the man pages clearly state that a list consists of zero
or more commands --
<quote>
Lists -- Generally Speaking
A list is a sequence of zero or more commands separated by
newlines,
semicolons, or ampersands, and optionally terminated by one
of these
three characters.
</quote>
Should I create a problem report? Where should I send it?
Cheers,
Malcolm
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