Oskar Hermansson wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 48
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> bash crashes when running the following wget command for downloading a
> file:
> wget
> http://www.kohanaphp.com/download?modules%5Bauth%5D=Auth&vendors%5Bmarkdown%5D=Markdown&languages%5Ben_US%5D=en_US&format=zip
>
> If the command is placed in a file instead, the file is successfully
> downloaded:
> wget `cat url.txt`
>
> The first wget command does not make for example "sh" crash.
>
> My wget version (if relevant): GNU Wget 1.11.4
>
> Repeat-By:
> 1. wget
> http://www.kohanaphp.com/download?modules%5Bauth%5D=Auth&vendors%5Bmarkdown%5D=Markdown&languages%5Ben_US%5D=en_US&format=zip
> 2. bash crashes
How does bash crash? Does it exit on a fatal signal, or dump core?
You're running three commands here, since the URL is unquoted and
contains two `&' characters.
Chet
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