Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: > Currently: > > $ dash -c 'foo=a; echo "<${foo#[a\]]}>"' > <> > > This is what I expect, and also what bash, ksh and posh do. > > With your patch: > > $ dash -c 'foo=a; echo "<${foo#[a\]]}>"' > I was looking into this

Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

On 02/03/2018 16:28, Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 11:58:41AM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: If we fix this in the parser then everything should just work. Right, that's the approach FreeBSD sh has taken that I referred to in my message from Feb 18, that I'd personally prefer as

Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

On 02/03/2018 18:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Harald van Dijk wrote: Currently: $ dash -c 'foo=a; echo "<${foo#[a\]]}>"' <> This is what I expect, and also what bash, ksh and posh do. With your patch: $ dash -c 'foo=a; echo

Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

On 02/03/2018 17:33, Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 05:05:46PM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: But in "${x+${y-}''}", the ' is the literal ' character. In "${x#${y-}''}", the ' is a quote character. This part is hard. If the above is done simply using another local variable, then the

Re: dash bug: double-quoted "\" breaks glob protection for next char

On 02/03/2018 08:49, Herbert Xu wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 08:24:22PM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: On 01/03/2018 00:04, Harald van Dijk wrote: $ bash -c 'x=yz; echo "${x#'"'y'"'}"' z $ dash -c 'x=yz; echo "${x#'"'y'"'}"' yz (That is, they are executing x=yz; echo "${x#'y'}".) POSIX