Package: dash Version: 0.5.5.1-2.3 Severity: normal The behavior I'm experiencing with DASH is that heredoc and shell expansion (backtick) don't work in the same command
I expect something like this to work, jab...@tad:~$ cat - <<EOF && ls `pwd` > blah > EOF blah 2009-07-25--20.18.36 Desktop jabber.git Pictures trash 2009-07-25--20.24.25 Documents Music Podcasts Videos 200907270 Downloads pbuilder public_html workspace backup jabber pear selenium jab...@tad:~$ - but in DASH it doesn't, $ cat - <<EOF && ls `pwd` 2009-07-25--20.18.36 Desktop jabber.git Pictures trash 2009-07-25--20.24.25 Documents Music Podcasts Videos 200907270 Downloads pbuilder public_html workspace backup jabber pear selenium $ blah dash: blah: not found $ EOF dash: EOF: not found $ -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii debianutils 3.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg 1.15.3.1 Debian package management system ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. dash suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

