Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: i686
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc -m32
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linu
x-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-pc-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='pc' -DLOCALEDIR='/path
/to/bash-3.2/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/pa
th/to/src/bash-3.2_linux/bash-3.2 -I/path/to/src/bash-3.2_linux/bash-3.2/include
-I/path/to/src/bash-3.2_linux/bash-3.2/lib -I/path/to/include -g -O2
uname output: Linux glnx011 2.4.21-37.ELhugemem #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:22:27 EDT 20
05 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Machine Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Bash Version: 3.2
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
The pound character (#), when located inside a bracket expression inside
single quotes inside backticks, is incorrectly interpreted as the bash
comment token.
Repeat-By:
(simplified version of code from current texLive distribution)
TABSIZE=`grep -v '^[ #]' some_file`
./test1: line 3: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
./test1: line 6: syntax error: unexpected end of file
(original line, as found in libs/ncurses/include/MKhashsize.sh of texLiv
e)
TABSIZE=`grep -v '^[ #]' $CAPS | grep -v "^$" | grep -v "^capalias"| gre
p -v
"^infoalias" | wc -l`
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