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Re: Read builtin -e (readline) oddities


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: Read builtin -e (readline) oddities
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:40:14 -0400
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On 6/18/17 9:39 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out a way to fuzz >>read -e -d ""<<, without having the
> fuzzer break due to the temporary files created by fc.
> 
> While doing this, I noticed the oddities described below.
> 
> 
> #1
> Hit `C-x C-e' twice.  The value of PATH seems to be ignored for the second
> line.
> 
>   dualbus@debian:~$ PATH= read -e
>   
>   bash: vim: No such file or directory
>   
>   echo hi
>   hi
> 
> 
> #2
> Spurious `;'s are inserted into the history.
> 
>   dualbus@debian:~$ history -c
>   dualbus@debian:~$ PATH= read -e
>   
>   bash: vim: No such file or directory
>   
>   echo hi
>   hi
>   
>   dualbus@debian:~$ history
>       1  PATH= read -e; ; 
>       2  echo hi
>       3  history
> 
> 
> #3
> Hit `C-x C-e' thrice. Also, the mapping of `\C-m' became `self-insert' instead
> of `accept-line'.

`read -e' changes it because it's no longer the line delimiter.

>   dualbus@debian:~$ PATH= EDITOR=: read -e -d ''
>   
>   PATH= EDITOR=: read -e -d ''; 
>   
>   fc -e "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-$(command -v editor || echo emacs)}}"
>   : /tmp/bash-fc.IZAzmF
>   PATH= EDITOR=: read -e -d ''; ; 
>   bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
>   
>   fc -e "${VISUAL:-${EDITOR:-$(command -v editor || echo emacs)}}"
>   vim /tmp/bash-fc.35ePED
>   ^M^M^C

I'll have to check why it doesn't get restored on ^C.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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