On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:27:24PM +0000, Todor Vlaev wrote:
>
> While playing around with parameter expansion I noticed that the
> following didn't work in dash (dash 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1) as compared
> to bash even though I believe it should be POSIX-compliant:
>
> my_str=swan; last_char="${my_str#${my_str%?}}"; echo ${last_char}
>
> If the double quotes are removed, the last character is printed correctly.
>
> At a quick glance through the commits after the 0.5.5.1 release I saw
> the following bug fix. Could it be related?
>
> 0d7d66039b614b642c775432fd64aa8c11f9a64d
> [EXPAND] Fix quoted pattern patch breakage
This patch should fix the problem.
commit a7c21a6f4cb42d967854cae954efd4ee66bdea9c
Author: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Fri Aug 23 20:04:12 2013 +1000
[EXPAND] Propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 01:27:24PM +0000, Todor Vlaev wrote:
>
> While playing around with parameter expansion I noticed that the
> following didn't work in dash (dash 0.5.5.1-7.4ubuntu1) as compared
> to bash even though I believe it should be POSIX-compliant:
>
> my_str=swan; last_char="${my_str#${my_str%?}}"; echo ${last_char}
>
> If the double quotes are removed, the last character is printed correctly.
>
> At a quick glance through the commits after the 0.5.5.1 release I saw
> the following bug fix. Could it be related?
>
> 0d7d66039b614b642c775432fd64aa8c11f9a64d
> [EXPAND] Fix quoted pattern patch breakage
We need to propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar as otherwise a nested
parameter expansion within subevalvar may be expanded incorrectly.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7354832..911d31e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-08-23 Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
+
+ * Propagate EXP_QPAT in subevalvar.
+
2012-07-20 Kimo Rosenbaum <[email protected]>
* Fix typo for wait in manual.
diff --git a/src/expand.c b/src/expand.c
index ce60fe9..11fd7b7 100644
--- a/src/expand.c
+++ b/src/expand.c
@@ -650,7 +650,8 @@ subevalvar(char *p, char *str, int strloc, int subtype, int
startloc, int varfla
char *(*scan)(char *, char *, char *, char *, int , int);
argstr(p, EXP_TILDE | (subtype != VSASSIGN && subtype != VSQUESTION ?
- (flag & EXP_QUOTED ? EXP_QPAT : EXP_CASE) : 0));
+ (flag & (EXP_QUOTED | EXP_QPAT) ?
+ EXP_QPAT : EXP_CASE) : 0));
STPUTC('\0', expdest);
argbackq = saveargbackq;
startp = stackblock() + startloc;
Cheers,
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