declare/typeset can't set array to variable name
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uname output: Darwin TimBookPro.local 17.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version
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Machine Type: x86_64-apple-darwin17.0.0
Bash Version: 4.4
Patch Level: 12
Release Status: release
Description:
Declare/typeset throws error when trying to create a new array to a
name held in a variable.
Repeat-By:
tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare var1=( This works )
tim@TimBookPro:~/ var2=var3
tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}="And this works"
tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}=( This breaks )
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare -a ${var2}=( array flag doesnt matter )
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Re: declare/typeset can't set array to variable name
On 1/4/18 9:27 PM, Tim Burnham wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.4
> Patch Level: 12
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> Declare/typeset throws error when trying to create a new array to a
> name held in a variable.
>
> Repeat-By:
> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare var1=( This works )
> tim@TimBookPro:~/ var2=var3
> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}="And this works"
> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}=( This breaks )
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare -a ${var2}=( array flag doesnt matter )
> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
It's a syntax error. `declare' is a `declaration command', as Posix
terms them, and takes assignment statements as arguments. If the parser
can detect an argument to `declare' as a valid assignment statement, it
will allow syntax, such as compound assignments, that it allows for
standalone assignments. In this case, the `${var2}' on the left side
of the assignment renders that word an invalid assignment statement,
since `${var2}' is not a valid identifier. Because it's not an assignment
statement, the left paren is not allowed to begin a compound assignment
and is treated as the operator it usually is. This isn't a place where the
grammar allows a left paren, so it's a syntax error.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Re: declare/typeset can't set array to variable name
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:02:24AM -0500, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/4/18 9:27 PM, Tim Burnham wrote:
> > tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}="And this works"
> > tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}=( This breaks )
> > -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> It's a syntax error.
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Re: declare/typeset can't set array to variable name
On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 8:02 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 1/4/18 9:27 PM, Tim Burnham wrote:
>
>> Bash Version: 4.4
>> Patch Level: 12
>> Release Status: release
>>
>> Description:
>> Declare/typeset throws error when trying to create a new array to a
>> name held in a variable.
>>
>> Repeat-By:
>> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare var1=( This works )
>> tim@TimBookPro:~/ var2=var3
>> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}="And this works"
>> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare ${var2}=( This breaks )
>> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>> tim@TimBookPro:~/ declare -a ${var2}=( array flag doesnt matter )
>> -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>
> It's a syntax error. `declare' is a `declaration command', as Posix
> terms them, and takes assignment statements as arguments. If the parser
> can detect an argument to `declare' as a valid assignment statement, it
> will allow syntax, such as compound assignments, that it allows for
> standalone assignments. In this case, the `${var2}' on the left side
> of the assignment renders that word an invalid assignment statement,
> since `${var2}' is not a valid identifier. Because it's not an assignment
> statement, the left paren is not allowed to begin a compound assignment
> and is treated as the operator it usually is. This isn't a place where the
> grammar allows a left paren, so it's a syntax error.
>
> Chet
> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Why does the parser inconsistently detect the identifier `${var2}'? In
the 3rd line of my example, Bash assigns the given expression into
`${var3}' as intended.
Re: declare/typeset can't set array to variable name
On 1/5/18 2:05 PM, Tim Burnham wrote:
>
> Why does the parser inconsistently detect the identifier `${var2}'? In
> the 3rd line of my example, Bash assigns the given expression into
> `${var3}' as intended.
The parser is consistent. It doesn't mark that word as a valid assignment
statement, either, which has implications for how it's expanded (for
example, it undergoes word splitting). That word doesn't contain any
metacharacters, so it's not a syntax error. It just appears as an argument
to `declare', which knows how to deal with it.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRUc...@case.eduhttp://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
xmalloc crash
Hi,
I found this from long long time ago.
Is this a serious bug?
[root@n1x ~]#su nix
nix@n1x:/root$ printf "%s\n"
{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}{{a..z},{A..Z},{0..9}}
bash: xmalloc: .././braces.c:793: cannot allocate 7329062664 bytes
(614682624 bytes allocated)
[root@n1x ~]#
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 17.10
Release:17.10
Codename: artful
Thanks,
Alfred
