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Re: syntax error with lone > or < as string in [ ] tests with -a or -o o
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Greg Wooledge |
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Re: syntax error with lone > or < as string in [ ] tests with -a or -o operators |
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Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:56:12 -0400 |
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 07:04:23PM +0200, Emanuel Attila Czirai wrote:
> In my superficial report, I definitely didn't think of that. I even forgot
> to mention that it works when escaped like "\>"
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> I've encountered it in the "adduser" FreeBSD sh script that runs as root,
> while trying to set a one char password like ">", so I thought I'd mention
> it here as well in case it might be helpful since I saw it happens in bash
> as well.
Sounds like you've found a nontrivial bug in FreeBSD (in the adduser
script, not in sh). I hope this gets reported and fixed, and in any case,
good work and thank you.