On 2008-12-22 15:09 +0100, Dennis Wicks wrote:

> When I run anything that is actually a shell script starting with
> #!/bin/sh and maybe any thing that uses a shell function I get five or
> six screens full of messages that look like the following and all
> start with /bin/sh
>
>       /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: syntax error near
>               `unexpected token `('
>       /bin/sh: _openssl: line 25: ` -@(in|out|oid))'
>       /bin/sh: error importing function definition for
>               `_openssl'
>       /bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error in
>               conditional expression: unexpected token `('
>       /bin/sh: _service: line 4: syntax error near `@(*'
>       /bin/sh: _service: line 4: ` [[ ${COMP_WORDS[0]} !=
> @(*init.d/!(functions|~)|service) ]] && return 0;'
>
> One example is  /usr/bin/bashbug

These functions seem to be defined in /etc/bash_completion.

> but all scripts that start with  #!/bin/sh
> seem to have the problem.
>
> One function that has the problem is one I wrote that does an ls and
> pipes it to less. As follows;
>
>       function lm ()
>               {
>               ls -laNF "$@" | $(which less)
>               }
>
>
> Anybody have any idea about what is causing these errors
> or where to look?

Maybe /etc/bash_completion contains some code that bash doesn't like
when it's called as sh.  But another question is why a non-interactive
shell even reads that file.  That's a misconfiguration for which I don't
really have an explanation.

Sven



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