Re: Sourcing a script from a pipe is not reliable

[Chet Ramey]

On 1/10/19 2:52 PM, Jeremy wrote:

> This bug seems not to be in current versions of bash 4.x, but I have not
> made an exhaustive study. The thing is I do not have control over which
> versions of bash people use to run the script, so I need a workaround. I
> was hoping this was a known bug with a known cause and a known workaround
> that would continue to be very portable. Alternatively, if we can narrow
> down which versions of bash are affected, then we can consider doing a
> specific check for that.
> 
> So far we have been able to limit this script to read operations so that it
> can run unprivileged on a read-only file system as it is read from a
> stream. That is why we are generating the script inline like this, and why
> I am not happy with the obvious workaround of sourcing a file instead of
> /dev/stdin.

Have you considered reading stdin into a string (if it's one line) or an
array (if it's more) and using `eval' on it? That obviously works better
if it's one line, but could be made to work on multiple lines.

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