It is intermittent. Let's not give up just yet. I just reproduced it again
after reading your response.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7yy6kbpjlx1zpty/Reproduced.png?dl=0
Have your tried booting into runlevel 1 or 3 and doing it first thing?
Recall it only happens once per log-in, so if you have
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/20/19 8:19 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > Even if Chet changed how here docs work in bash 5.1, nobody would
> > be safe to use those features in their "I'm feeding a password with
> > a here string" scripts for at least 20 years, b
On 3/20/19 8:19 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Even if Chet changed how here docs work in bash 5.1, nobody would
> be safe to use those features in their "I'm feeding a password with
> a here string" scripts for at least 20 years, because there will
> still be people running older versions of bash for
On 3/19/19 9:07 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback, Eduardo--
>
> On Mon 2019-03-18 17:40:17 -0700, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
>> I don't think the implementation details of herestrings are documented
>> anywhere,
>> and I'm not too sure if they should (i.e. IMO if y
On 3/20/19 7:36 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Tue 2019-03-19 09:31:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> There are scripts that *rely* on the seekability of the temporary files
>> created by here-documents and here-strings. "Improving" the "situation"
>> would break backward compatibility.
>
>
On 3/19/19 8:49 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:25:50 -0400
> From:Greg Wooledge
> Message-ID: <20190319122550.khv5jp66iobjo...@eeg.ccf.org>
>
> | Yes, just like here documents do. And have always done, in all shells.
>
> That's not correct. The
On 3/18/19 8:40 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> Having said that, have you tried process substitution as an option?
>
> You should be able to do something like:
>
>
> mycommand < <(printf %s 'super secret')
>
>
> That will:
>
> - not write the 'super secret' string to the file-sys
On 3/19/19 8:25 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 05:18:10PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> strace -o tmp/bash.herestring.strace -f bash -c 'cat <<<"hello there"'
>> It turns out that this creates a temporary file, actually touching the
>> underlying filesystem:
>
> Yes,
On 3/18/19 5:18 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> hi bash developers--
>
> I ran the following command to get a sense of how bash deals with here
> strings under the hood:
>
> strace -o tmp/bash.herestring.strace -f bash -c 'cat <<<"hello there"'
>
> (i'm testing with bash 5.0-2 on debian tes
