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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sh bug? Date: 13 Mar 1997 01:40:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <5g7ltp$ps@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <332369be.3271553@news.fu-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36953 thimm@physik.fu-berlin.de (Axel Thimm) wrote: > Installing tetex on 2.1.0 a bug in sh showed up. > It affects redirection like >&1 and makes Thomas Esser's life harder to > keep tetex portable. bash is working fine. > Is this a known bug, has it been fixed in 2.1.7? (This bug shows up when > calling MakeTeXPK in recent tetex releases) Please don't assume everybody is happy to suck several megabytes of TeTeX just to verify a shell bug. Better isolate the bug in a minimum script. What's wrong about the redirections? I hope it's not the old buggy script that had an unterminated string or such inside an if branch that evaluated to false. This wasn't actually a shell bug, even though most shells seemed to get away with it. (It was some TeX, but i eventually forgot which one.) Btw., bash is by far nothing you could count as a reference shell. If at all, use a genuine ksh, then at least you've got what the Posix consortium deemed the only shell. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)