Re: Assignment of $* to a var removes spaces on unset IFS.

[Bize Ma]

2018-08-13 21:16 GMT-04:00 Eduardo Bustamante <dualbus@gmail.com>:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:25 PM Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
> [...]
> > What's more, reporting bugs in bash 4.3 is just a waste of everyone's
> time.
> > Upgrade to (at least) the current released version, and use that instead.
>
> Adding to this point:
>
> * bash 4.3 was released 4 years ago (2014-02-26)
> * bash 4.4 is the current release of bash (2016-09-15)
> * bash 5.0 is in alpha state (2018-05-22)
>
>
You both are confused. The original table included

> b43sh           : [foo bar baz quux][  foo     bar  baz     quux  ]
> b44sh           : [foo bar baz quux][  foo     bar  baz     quux  ]

That's   4.3.48(2)-release   and    4.4.19(2)-release


Both are failing.

Note that 4.4.19 is newer than what is available in
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/

The report is valid for present releases.
The bug is still present (since 4.3).

Please, do not waste our time in incorrect claims.

Do your homework and test !


> I know that some stable Linux distributions might still be
> distributing 4.3, but that just means that you have to report the bug
> against these distros, not upstream.


That is not the problem, don't jump to conclusions.