Re: Wrong line numbers in errors

[Chet Ramey]

On 2/3/24 8:36 AM, Matthias Urlichs via Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell wrote:

Version 5.2.15




#!/bin/bash
set -u
( echo x ) | while read f ; do
     echo Test $f
     echo Test $f
     echo Test $f
     echo Test $f
     echo Test $f
done
echo $nope

see example script below, the unassigned $nope is reported to be in line 4 which is obviously wrong. Removing the parentheses around the echo fixes the problem.

Thanks for the report. This was fixed in September, 2022, the result of
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110714 .


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