Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 21:10:01 GMT From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/181240: /bin/sh choking on a certain construct Message-ID: <201308122110.r7CLA1lH005924@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
To: Tamas TEVESZ <ice@extreme.hu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/181240: /bin/sh choking on a certain construct
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:06:43 +0200
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:54:02PM +0000, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
# >How-To-Repeat:
# /bin/sh -c 'echo foo || >&2 | cat'
#
# (Or, if you have misc/mc installed, hit ^[3 on a .diff/.patch/.so etc. file for which mc calls /usr/local/libexec/mc/ext.d/misc.sh)
A simpler invocation is
$ >x | cat
Syntax error: "|" unexpected
If I read the SUS shell grammar correctly, a lone redirection cannot be
a simple command in a pipe, so this is an extension that the other
shells accept. I'm not sure if this is a particular useful extension.
Regards,
Jens
--
Jens Schweikhardt http://www.schweikhardt.net/
SIGSIG -- signature too long (core dumped)
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