Carey Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [snip] > > > So, the bug is that bash-2.0 incorrectly considers > > ((...);...) an arithmetic expression with a missing closing > > paren when really it's a proper (list) construct that > > _should_ be accepted by the shell. > > [snip] > > > What do pdksh and zsh do with this? Older bash versions (< > > 2.0) work but 2.0 is broken. > > It looks like they're both broken, but ash is not. I just checked and > Solaris 2.5's ksh is _not_ broken like this. (I don't trust just > Netscape to get it right.) > > % ksh -c '((pwd);pwd)' > ksh: pwd);pwd): unexpected `)' > % zsh -c '((pwd);pwd)' > zsh: parse error near `pwd' > > I'll look into these a bit further and submit bug reports.
hades# echo $BASH_VERSION 2.01.0(1)-release hades# ((pwd);pwd) /var/named /var/named this version seems to work anyway.. /Stefan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
