Re: Bad tokenisation inside backticks

[Chet Ramey]

Adam Sampson wrote:
> Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
> Machine: i686
> OS: linux-gnu
> Compiler: gcc
> Compilation CFLAGS:  -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' 
> -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' 
> -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/opt/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL 
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H   -I.  -I. -I./include -I./lib   -O2
> uname output: Linux cartman.at.offog.org 2.6.18-rt5-GS #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Oct 
> 2 14:56:34 BST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       bash 3.2.0 appears to handle hashes inside strings inside backticks in
>       an unexpected way; this wasn't the case with previous versions as far
>       as I can tell.

This is fixed in patch 1 to bash-3.2.  It's available from ftp.gnu.org
or ftp.cwru.edu in bash-3.2-patches/bash32-001 in the bash distribution
directory.

Chet
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