Package: posh
Version: 0.8.4
Severity: normal
$ posh -c 'f() echo test; f'
test
Same output for all the other Bourne-like shells but bash.
$ bash -c 'f() echo test; f'
bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `echo'
bash: -c: line 0: `f() echo test; f'
which makes that construct non-portable even it it's Bourne. So
posh should return an error as well. POSIX requires a compound
command for the function body, so the behavior is unspecified if
a simple command is used instead. From SUSv4:
function_definition : fname '(' ')' linebreak function_body
;
function_body : compound_command /* Apply rule 9 */
| compound_command redirect_list /* Apply rule 9 */
f() (echo test)
f() { echo test;}
f() for i in .; do echo test; done
are allowed, but not:
f() echo test
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (50, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored:
LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
(interstingly, without the LC_ALL, reportbug crashed)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages posh depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.10.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
posh recommends no packages.
posh suggests no packages.
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