Path: csiph.com!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Chet Ramey Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: BASH_ALIASES assignment allow special characters Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 13:05:59 -0400 Organization: ITS, Case Western Reserve University Lines: 19 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20180527082057.179481284F8@sint.jonkmans.nl> Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1527440959 2226 208.118.235.17 (27 May 2018 17:09:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu To: Mike Jonkmans , bug-bash@gnu.org, bash@packages.debian.org Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 In-Reply-To: <20180527082057.179481284F8@sint.jonkmans.nl> Content-Language: en-US X-Junkmail-Status: score=7/90, host=mpv1-2015.case.edu X-Junkmail-PrAS-Raw: score=7/90, refid=2.7.2:2018.5.27.160916:17:7.944, ip=, rules=__HAS_REPLYTO, __HAS_CC_HDR, __SUBJ_REPLY, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __TO_NAME, __TO_NAME_DIFF_FROM_ACC, __REFERENCES, __HAS_FROM, FROM_EDU_TLD, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, DATE_TZ_NA, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ADDY, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_ACC, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC1, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_ANY_CC2, __REPLYTO_SAMEAS_FROM_DOMAIN, __ANY_URI, __URI_WITH_PATH, __URI_NO_WWW, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __URI_IN_BODY, __URI_NOT_IMG, __FORWARDED_MSG, __NO_HTML_TAG_RAW, BODY_SIZE_600_699, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, __MIME_TEXT_P1, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, __URI_NS, HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, IN_REP_TO, MSG_THREAD, __FROM_DOMAIN_IN_RCPT, __TO_REAL_NAMES, MULTIPLE_REAL_RCPTS, LEGITIMATE_SIGNS, [TRUNCATED], so=2010-03-03 19:42:08, dmn=2016-08-03-0138 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 129.22.103.226 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:14151 On 5/27/18 4:20 AM, Mike Jonkmans wrote: > Bash Version: 4.4 > Patch Level: 19 > Release Status: release > > Description: > The special array BASH_ALIAS allows assignment/creation of aliases with > special characters in it. > Though these characters would error when used in an alias statement. Thanks for the report. I suppose it's better to report an error on assignment instead of simply never allowing the alias `name' to be used. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/