On 7/28/25 4:29 AM, Oğuz wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:The quotation marks don't appear to matter, but the trailing $ does.`$!' works as well, when there's no most recent asynchronous job: $ printf '<%s>\n' $(seq 3)$! <1 2 3> $ I think the problem is right here: https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/subst.c?h=devel#n11524 The function `param_expand' writes 0 to `*expanded_something' when `string' ends with `$' or `$!' and there's no async job, and bash forgets all the expansions it has done in that word. Maybe it was supposed to be called with the address of a local copy of `expanded_something'? There's a variable named `local_expanded' in that function that seems to be unused...
Good catch, that is the right approach.
Chet
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