IFS set to backslash

2015-01-07 Thread Eduardo A . Bustamante López
I was playing with the following scenario: IFS set to backslash, using read (with and without -r), triggering field splitting by passing multiple names to read, triggering field splitting by expanding an unquoted parameter. And, I found the following results: (note: the ones with a # , that mean

Incorrect "jobs" output after "trap ... ERR" command

2015-01-07 Thread Keith Thompson
I've discovered a bash bug that causes the "jobs" command to produce incorrect output after an ERR trap has been defined and triggered. I've seen it with bash 4.3.11(1)-release on Linux Mint 17 and bash 4.3.30(1)-release on Debian 6. I have *not* seen it with 3.2.25(1)-release on CentOS 5.10. The