Re: Possibly a bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/23/15 3:28 AM, Valentin Bajrami wrote:
> Chet,
> 
> 'history' is not the builtin command in this case. 'history' is a normal
> file containing awk code (see my first post).  I named it history because
> it does some calculations and shows the 10 most used commands. The file is
> expecting some input from a command (pipe) like the 'history' builtin command.

OK, that turned out to be the key.  I figured out the cause: a combination
of a shell function running as part of a pipeline run by an interactive
shell, running an external command from the file system.  The fix will be
in the next release of bash.

Chet
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