Greetings, After upgrading to bash-5.3, I ran into a strange problem with many of my scripts: It looks like in bash-5.3, setting the extglob option can crash my script, if the shopt command is inside an if-then-fi structure, or if it's inside a for-do-done loop. For example, here is a snippet that works fine in bash-5.2, but breaks in bash-5.3: #--------------------------------------- shopt -u extglob # [...] if true; then shopt -s extglob echo /!(tmp.txt) fi #--------------------------------------- ...and it bombs really bad, it aborts the whole script.
Simillarly, this one breaks too: #--------------------------------------- shopt -u extglob # [...] for i in 1 2; do shopt -s extglob echo /!(something) done #--------------------------------------- And even this one breaks in bash-5.3: #--------------------------------------- shopt -u extglob # [...] shopt -s extglob; echo !(something) #--------------------------------------- Interestingly, if I modify the if-then-fi structure this way... #--------------------------------------- shopt -s extglob if true; then echo /!(tmp.txt) fi #--------------------------------------- ...then it does not break. But then, this is not really a solution to the problem. Yours, Pourko -- Secured with Tuta Mail: https://tuta.com/free-email
