Re: FW: multi-line alias executed out of order

[Andrew Martin]

Chet & Pierre:

My apologies, the newlines were somehow removed by my email client.
First, here's a properly formatted pastebin link:

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=AhF89GfT

And here's another attempt at a properly formatted report:

Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-pc-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash'
-DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I../bash -I../bash/include
-I../bash/lib  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wall
uname output: Linux ubuntu 3.11.0-12-generic #19-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9
16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Bash Version: 4.2
Patch Level: 45
Release Status: release

Description:
In a multi-line alias, where entries are separated by semi-colon,
"source" commands are not executed in-step with all the other
commands.  After all the non "source" commands are executed, the
"source" commands are executed in reverse order.  See below for an
example.

Repeat-By:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat script.sh
#!/bin/bash
(echo -n "$1 "; date +%S.%N)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias foo1
alias foo1='~/script.sh one; source ~/script.sh two; source
~/script.sh three; ~/script.sh four'
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias foo2
alias foo2='~/script.sh one;
source ~/script.sh two;
source ~/script.sh three;
~/script.sh four;
'
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ foo1
one 09.742581873
two 09.745315889
three 09.749212492
four 09.761410711
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ foo2
one 11.805819275
four 11.819741270
three 11.828260887
two 11.829470548

Fix:

Use a single-line alias.  Or use the "&&" operator to chain commands
(which changes the functionality to be short-circuit evaluations).

Also verified this behavior on RHEL6 with bash 4.1.2(1).

Thanks,
Andrew Martin


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Andrew Martin <andrewcmartin@msn.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:14:23 -0500
>> From: chet.ramey@case.edu
>> To: andrewcmartin@msn.com
>> CC: bug-bash@gnu.org; bash@packages.debian.org; chet.ramey@case.edu
>> Subject: Re: multi-line alias executed out of order
>
>>
>>
>> > Description:In a multi-line alias, where entries are separated by
>> > semi-colon, "source" commands are not executed in-step with all the other
>> > commands. After all the non "source" commands are executed, the "source"
>> > commands are executed in reverse order. See below for an example.
>> > Repeat-By:
>> > ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat script.sh#!/bin/bash(echo -n "$1 "; date
>> > +%S.%N)ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias foo1alias foo1='~/script.sh one; source
>> > ~/script.sh two; source ~/script.sh three; ~/script.sh 
>> > four'ubuntu@ubuntu:~$
>> > alias foo2alias foo2='~/script.sh one;source ~/script.sh two;source
>> > ~/script.sh three;~/script.sh four;'ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ foo1one 
>> > 09.742581873two
>> > 09.745315889three 09.749212492four 09.761410711ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ foo2one
>> > 11.805819275four 11.819741270three 11.828260887two 11.829470548
>
>> > Fix:
>> > Use a single-line alias. Or use the "&&" operator to chain commands
>> > (which changes the functionality to be short-circuit evaluations).
>>
>> I can't reproduce this on Mac OS X or RHEL 5. You might also consider
>> adding a few newlines into your report for readability.
>>
>> Chet
>> --
>> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
>> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
>> Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/