On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:02, Chet Ramey wrote:
> Oskar Hermansson wrote:
>
> > Bash Version: 3.2
> > Patch Level: 48
> > Release Status: release
> >
> > Description:
> > bash crashes when running the following wget command for downloading
> a
> > file:
> > wget
> >
> http://www.kohanaphp.com/download?modules%5Bauth%5D=Auth&vendors%5Bmarkdown%5D=Markdown&languages%5Ben_US%5D=en_US&format=zip
> >
> > If the command is placed in a file instead, the file is successfully
> > downloaded:
> > wget `cat url.txt`
> >
> > The first wget command does not make for example "sh" crash.
> >
> > My wget version (if relevant): GNU Wget 1.11.4
> >
> > Repeat-By:
> > 1. wget
> >
> http://www.kohanaphp.com/download?modules%5Bauth%5D=Auth&vendors%5Bmarkdown%5D=Markdown&languages%5Ben_US%5D=en_US&format=zip
> > 2. bash crashes
>
> How does bash crash? Does it exit on a fatal signal, or dump core?
> You're running three commands here, since the URL is unquoted and
> contains two `&' characters.
>
> Chet
> --
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> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRUc...@case.edu
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>
Okay. Bash does not crash. It exits, probably just fine. It was a bit hard
to see that when running the commands in gnome-terminal, because the window
closed immediately. Just as you suggested, it was split into several
commands with the ampersand. I've broken down the case into executing the
following three commands:
o...@laptop:~$ wget http://www.google.com & unknowncommand &
variable=assignment
I don't understand why bash exits, and if this really is the defined
behavior. Maybe you can explain?
Oskar
