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Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode

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  Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2018-12-14 09:29 -0500

#14915 — Re: 'eval' exit behaviour in posix mode

On 12/14/18 6:46 AM, Martijn Dekker wrote:
> In current git, 'bash -o posix' no longer exits the shell on a syntax error
> in the argument to the special builtin 'eval'. Bash 4.2-4.4 exit as POSIX
> specifies.

Well, not quite. It's the specific case of an unexpected end of file. ksh93
doesn't exit, either, but it's probably the right thing to do, and the
right thing for backwards compatibility.

Chet

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