Version: all(?), including bash-4.2, patch 45 Hi, bash developers. If you edit a running bash script file, the result is unpredictable. [1] This is bad for long time running scripts.
[1] See for example, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3398258/ I guess a fix won't be difficult. In fact, a user-side workaround[2] is to put the entire code inside a brace, as: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash { <put the entrie code here> exit } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2] http://stackoverflow.com/a/2358432/780703 By doing so, bash reads the code body before execution. (The last "exit" is necessary. See the cited page.) This seems to mean that with slight changes of the source, bash must be able to read the entire script before execution. This may partly be an enhancement request rather than a bug report. Anyway thank you very much for reading. Best regards, Teika (Teika kazura)
