Are you planning on releasing a patch for this? If you'd like me to try to prepare a patch, I'd appreciate some guidance around the various dequote_... functions in subst.c. Thanks!
Best, Seth On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:03 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 12/25/23 5:00 PM, Seth Sabar wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm reaching out to report what I believe to be a bug with the > > *--pretty-print* feature in bash-5.2. From what I can tell, Bash uses the > > utf-8 character */001* as an escape character. However, when using the > > pretty-print feature in Bash, this doesn't seem to be considered. So, for > > example, in a bash script with character */001* the AST representation > > will contain */001/001*, however, when it's printed via the pretty print > > feature, this isn't un-escaped. > > Thanks for the report. This affects word lists, the word in a case > command, and shell function names. The fix is to dequote those words when > in pretty-printing mode. You could do that for the name in a select > command, too, but that's an invalid identifier to begin with. > > Chet > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ > >
