Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip]
> So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > _should_ be accepted by the shell. [snip] > What do pdksh and zsh do with this? Older bash versions (< > 2.0) work but 2.0 is broken. It looks like they're both broken, but ash is not. I just checked and Solaris 2.5's ksh is _not_ broken like this. (I don't trust just Netscape to get it right.) % ksh -c '((pwd);pwd)' ksh: pwd);pwd): unexpected `)' % zsh -c '((pwd);pwd)' zsh: parse error near `pwd' I'll look into these a bit further and submit bug reports. -- Carey Evans <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Deliver. Where's that?" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .