Devuan bug report logs - #856
bash: Invalid processing of Parameter Expansion

Package: bash; Maintainer for bash is (unknown); Source for bash is src:bash.

Reported by: murzik <lorietta2023@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2024 06:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: upstream

Merged with 855

Found in version 5.2.15-2+b7

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: g4sra <g4sra@protonmail.com>
Cc: 855-done@bugs.devuan.org
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#855: bug#855: Invalid processing of Parameter
 Expansion
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2024 at 01:08:10PM +0000, g4sra wrote:
> Escaping $ rather than trying to quote works as expected
> 
> echo "${Var#*\$(}"
> 
> Is quoting a valid method in bash ?

A good point.

Closing as there may not even be a bug here. Even if there is, it is upstream.

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #856 bash: Invalid processing of Parameter Expansion

Devuan bug report logs - #856
bash: Invalid processing of Parameter Expansion