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Re: Arithmetic expansion in rediretion word is evaluated twice

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On 6/2/20 9:14 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> writes:
>> On 6/1/20 3:34 PM, Oguz wrote:
>>> See:
>>>
>>>     $ unset foo
>>>     $ : <$((foo+=42))
>>>     bash: 84: No such file or directory
>>>     $ echo $foo
>>>     84
>>
>> Yes. The redirection is evaluated once for the open and again for the
>> error message.
> 
> That does seem rather a bug, or at least, a poor error message.  Is it
> hard to save the string that was attempted to be opened?

It's clumsy. The code isn't really structured to make this easy. I'll put
it on the list to take a look at.

Chet
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