Re: FW: multi-line alias executed out of order

2013-12-19 Thread Chet Ramey
On 12/17/13 10:49 PM, Andrew Martin wrote: Chet Pierre: My apologies, the newlines were somehow removed by my email client. Thanks. There's a weird interaction between multi-line (embedded newline) alias expansions, the `.' builtin, and the parser. I will fix it for bash-4.3-release. Chet

Buffer overflow bug in Bash

2013-12-19 Thread Ben Okopnik
Hi - Here's a couple of scripts, stripped down to bare bones and tested on several recent bash versions; both cause a crash, with the following errors in all cases: ./borked1: line 6: n/core-default.xml: expression recursion level exceeded (error token is n/core-default.xml) ./borked2: line 6:

Fwd: soft-bug (should be in planning queue)...

2013-12-19 Thread Linda Walsh
declare -u word word='aαβb' echo $word AαβB bash is not raising the case of UTF8 lower case letters (lower case alpha beta (αβ=ΑΒ). It doesn't have to be fixed by tomorrow, but next week would be fine... ;-) (that schedule was indented as humor...) I think it *is* something that should be in