On 8/25/14, 6:25 PM, jim.av...@gmail.com wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> NOTE: This repeats (approximately) a bug I sent a few minutes ago, but
> with
> an invalid From: address. Most likely my ISP dropped the message as
> spam,
> but if not, please accept my appoligies for the dup.
>
> \<newline> is supposed to be effectively ignored, but if it appears at
> the
> end of the script then parse errors sometimes occur with previous
> statements.
> In particular eval "array=(values...)" is mis-parsed if a subsequent
> statement
> ends with <backslash><newline> and there is nothing further in the script.
Thanks for the report. This will be fixed in the next release of bash.
Chet
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