On 2/26/15 1:01 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 2/26/15 8:20 AM, Corentin Peuvrel wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I found a bug in bash-4.1 (CentOS 6) that was fixed (at least) in bash-4.3
>> (Fedora 21).
>>
>> $ foo=aXb ; echo "$BASH_VERSION : ${foo/X/\'}"
>> 4.3.33(1)-release : a'b
>>
>> $ foo=aXb ; echo "$BASH_VERSION : ${foo/X/\'}"
>> 4.1.2(1)-release : a\'b
>>
>> The shell substitution add the backslash before the quote, but it shouldn't
>> (and ${foo/X/'} fail because it wait for an ending quote).
>>
>> I was wondering if it was possible to backport a fix in 4.1 ?
>
> No. The changes were pretty extensive, and I don't have the time
> it would take to port them two versions back.
>
> You can read the rationale for the changes in all its glory at
>
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=221
Sorry, I should have added that you can work around this by using a
shell variable, as another poster suggested.
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