On 7/23/19 9:16 PM, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> OS: Fedora 28, Running on a Dell Latitude E7450
> Standard RPM Package: bash-4.4.23-1.fc28.x86_64
>
>
> if you type a multi-line if-then-else-fi statement with a command before the
> else.
> Bash does not add a semi-colon before the else when saving to history.
>
> Type into command line (watch out for no-break-spaces added by mail)...
>
>
> if true
> then echo yes
> # comment - required to activate bug
> else echo no
> fi
>
> this works fine! outputting "yes"
> But if you look at the history
>
> history|grep i\\f|tail -1
>
> Returning...
>
> 830 if true; then echo "yes" else echo "no"; fi
Thanks for the report. This was fixed in bash-5.0.
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