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On 7/14/20 6:32 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm working on a script to find all shared objects in a directory. A
> filename should match the RE '*.so$'. I thought I would pipe it to
> grep:
> 
> $ ./audit-libs.sh /home/jwalton/tmp/ok2delete/lib
> ./audit-libs.sh: line 17: 22929 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
> $(echo "$file" | grep -E "*.so$")
> ./audit-libs.sh: line 17: 22934 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
> $(echo "$file" | grep -E "*.so$")
> ./audit-libs.sh: line 17: 22939 Segmentation fault      (core dumped)
> $(echo "$file" | grep -E "*.so$")
> ...
> 
> My code is broken at the moment. I know I am the cause of Bash's
> crash. But I feel like Bash should not segfault.

Bash is reporting that a process exited due to a seg fault, but it is
not necessarily a bash process.

Since the message is reporting a core dump, a backtrace from that would
tell you what's faulting.


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