Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> writes: > On 6/1/20 3:34 PM, Oguz wrote: >> See: >> >> $ unset foo >> $ : <$((foo+=42)) >> bash: 84: No such file or directory >> $ echo $foo >> 84 > > Yes. The redirection is evaluated once for the open and again for the > error message.
That does seem rather a bug, or at least, a poor error message. Is it hard to save the string that was attempted to be opened? Dale
