Re: some unknown bug, says : command not found

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

.. regarding a $notset <( .. wouldnt that display in set -x on that line,
rather when the cat or gawk is ran

On Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 06:03 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:

> i dont see the 63, its inside that tho
>
> i post the code, as i saw its fairly short, 'xbl' file
> the tgz with required awks and support files is also sent
>
> but anyway in the xbl the affected part are the cat or kopi.gawk if parts
> inside $xblpp <( here )
>
> $xblpp is either cat or .
> cat for 'display me the code' and defaultly . for 'source the code, not
> display'
> $t and $t2 are just stamps, as seen in my set -x post
>
> i think this error came up recently just, it happens when i . xbl too
> new bash seasion sources it right without err, i never seen this err
> before too
> bash 5.1.8 debian release
>
> i think its some bug.. what else could it be, .. new bash sessions source
> it right, also before this err really wasnt, not that i tried . script
> instead of new bash sessions much
>
> ..
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021, 23:08 Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri <
> andreas.kahari@abc.se> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 03:23:15AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>> >     Date:        Mon, 1 Nov 2021 12:03:48 -0400
>> >     From:        Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
>> >     Message-ID:  <YYAP5PynR6Us/FV/@wooledge.org>
>> >
>> >   | > bash: : command not found
>> >   | > bash: : command not found
>> >   |
>> >   | Because this is you, I can't be sure whether you are correctly
>> pasting
>> >   | the output from your terminal into email,
>> >
>> > Actually, because it is him, it is more likely that he has "cat" aliased
>> > to ' ' somehow, since he loves aliases so much.
>> >
>> > kre
>> >
>>
>> Looking at their trace output, the thing that causes the error is
>>
>>         '' /dev/fd/63
>>
>> The /dev/fd/63 bit is probably from a process substitution.
>>
>> What causes the '' is anyone's guess, and mine is that it's simply a
>> variable that happens to be unset or empty (possibly due to a mistyping
>> in its name?)
>>
>>         $ "$my_thnig" <( [[ -s "$pathname" ]] && cat -- "$pathname" )
>>         bash: : command not found
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri
>> SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM
>> Uppsala University, Sweden
>>
>> .
>>
>>