Hi
Ok, that explain it.
Regards,
// Ola
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 02:26:21PM +0200, Miroslav Kure wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 12:00:25PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> >
> > The reason for this was that bash -n script showed syntax error. I
> > found it because lintian gave a warning. Have I missed something or
> > is bash -n broken?
>
> I would say that bash -n is broken, because my bash manual says:
>
> case word in [ [(] pattern [ | pattern ] ... ) list ;; ] ... esac
> A case command first expands word, and tries to match it against
> each pattern in turn, using the same matching rules as for path
> name expansion (see Pathname Expansion below).
>
> Then later in the Pathname Expansion:
>
> If the extglob shell option is enabled using the shopt builtin, several
> extended pattern matching operators are recognized. In the following
> description, a pattern-list is a list of one or more patterns separated
> by a |. Composite patterns may be formed using one or more of the
> following sub-patterns:
>
> *(pattern-list)
> Matches zero or more occurrences of the given patterns
> ...
>
> The simple test on command prompt confirms this behaviour:
>
> ~$ case abbbc in a*(b)c) echo "ok";; esac
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token ('
>
> ~$ shopt -s extglob
> ~$ case abbbc in a*(b)c) echo "ok";; esac
> ok
>
> As bash -n newvserver is failing with:
> newvserver: line 234: syntax error near unexpected token ('
> newvserver: line 234: ` [a-z0-9]*([a-z0-9_-])[a-z0-9])'
>
> it looks like bash -n does not honour the extglob option.
>
> --
> Miroslav Kure
>
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