Tessa Lau wrote: > ---------------[ snip ]----------------- > > One more question: bash 2.0 doesn't appear to understand a command > line > which worked in bash 1.14: > > % /bin/bash -c '((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: missing closing `)' for arithmetic expression > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `((xli foo.gif); echo bar) &' > > A command like this is hardcoded into Netscape to launch an external > image > viewer as a helper application. Is this a bug in bash?
Yes it's a bash 2.0 bug. It's fixed in bash 2.01 which hasn't made its way into 1.3.1 but there's a working debian package in master's incoming. > > (Debian 1.3, haven't upgraded to 1.3.1 yet) > > Thanks! > --Tessa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
