Hello bug-bash readers, I noticed the following bash bug when using gnulib-tool. The script below outputs
foo: line 20: echo: write error: Broken pipe foo: line 21: echo: write error: Broken pipe with bash 3.2.48(5)-release on GNU/Linux, whereas I think it should be silent. Please note that the script assumes that GNU coreutils seq is installed. Please also note that the above errors occur also when trap '' PIPE is used instead of 'trap - PIPE'. I believe this might be a rather recent regression, as I don't recall this happening when the code was introduced into gnulib-tool a few months ago. Thanks for maintaining bash! Cheers, Ralf #! /bin/sh func_exit () { (exit $1); exit $1 } trap 'exit_status=$? if test "$signal" != 0; then echo "caught signal $signal" >&2 fi exit $exit_status' 0 for signal in 13; do trap '{ signal='$signal'; func_exit 1; }' $signal done signal=0 foo=`seq 10000 30000` ( trap - PIPE; echo "$foo" ) | join -v 2 - /dev/null trap - PIPE; echo "$foo" | join -v 2 - /dev/null