Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Joel Roth wrote:
>
> > $ perl -e "system('cat 2>&1>/dev/null &')"
> > sh: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
>
> Yep, looks like a dash bug.
Thanks for getting back to me.
<snip tokenizing rules>
> Still, wouldn't it make sense to add the space yourself to make your
> code unambiguous to humans?
Now that I know about it, yes. I never studied
shell, and had just cargo-culted a redirection
example.
When my example broke, obviously the culprit
was dash. :-)
> Thanks for the report. Will forward upstream.
Very audacious of Debian leaders to replace bash with dash.
<flame>
Just to grouse for minute, if it's more convenient for them
to take over /bin/sh than rewrite all the boot scripts
to use /bin/dash, how do they feel about the rest
of the Debian user world having to rewrite all
*their* scripts to use /bin/bash? What about the
naive users who discover that their applications
are broken?
</flame>
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Joel Roth
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