Jan Schampera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Description: > Parameters inside arithmetic contexts like $(()) and (()) break > the expression parsing when they contain a newline > > Repeat-By: > $ foo="12 > > 34" > > $ echo $((foo)) > bash: 12 > 34: syntax error in expression (error token is "34")
Why do you think this is a bug? Two numbers separated by whitespace cannot form a valid expression. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash