Bug 119470 – bash 3.1 Parse bug in comment line with embedded quote

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description takken 2006-01-18 11:28:17 UTC]

The following BASH script fails to run on BASH 3.1:


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#!/bin/bash 

 Test=$[ `

 # Remove the ' in this comment to make it work.

   for Counter in 1 2
     do
       echo "$Counter + "
     done
             ` 100 ]

 echo "$Test"

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Removing the ' from the comment fixes the script. The script runs perfectly on BASH versions <= 3.0.

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2006-01-18 12:06:26 UTC]

try this patch:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=77322

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2006-04-14 20:49:33 UTC]

this isnt a regression and it has been fixed upstream, so the next release of bash will handle this properly