Re: reporting a bug: output of a long line, longer than fits on winow-size, breakes bash

[Chet Ramey]

On 7/10/22 8:35 AM, Anton Wessel wrote:
> I am working with Kubuntu 22.04 and KNOPPIX 9.1, bash version is reported 
> by KNOPPIX:
>
> 5.1.4(1)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
>
>
> My bash script contains many bash one-liners and comments.
>
> The one-liners are put into the history list by code like:
>
> history -s ': # <command>'
>
> After this script had been run once, I can scroll back in the lines of 
> history list.
> I can stop scrolling when found a line, e.g.:
>
> : # ps -Flwwc --sort=start_time -t $(tty)
>
> Then I can remove the four characters at beginning of the line:
>
> ": # "
>
> and can execute this command.
>
>
> So far ok.
>
>
> When a one-liner is long, longer than fits on current window size, then 
> problems in bash occure.
>
> This has nothing to do with what is the contents of the long line.
>
> Bash is broken by the fact that window size is exceeded.

I can't reproduce this. It's probably your $PS1.

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