Re: [Help-bash] Weird error of bash "/bin/sh: line 1: `BASH_FUNC_f%%': not a valid identifier"

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/4/14, 2:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:

> I will note that I checked an old version 3.2.51 and did not have an
> invalid identifier problem.  It worked for me with the official
> patches.  Therefore I conclude that Apple has added different patches
> for their 3.2.51.  There were many other patches discussed around the
> time of the security disclosure.

Apple kind of rolled their own with the exported function namespace patch
(bash32-054) and didn't end up using the same prefix and suffix as I did
(they used BASH_FUNC< and >, respectively).  Since the Apple bash doesn't
recognize the prefix and suffix I used in the official patches as denoting
an exported function definition, it attempts to create a shell variable
with that name.  It's not a valid identifier, so the attempted variable
assignment fails.  I didn't make the change to ignore invalid identifiers
in the environment until after bash-3.2, so Apple doesn't have that change
and throws an error.

Chet

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