Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:25:30 -0700 From: John Merryweather Cooper <john_m_cooper@yahoo.com> To: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@uol.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in shell `` expansion code? Message-ID: <20010921212530.G24650@johncoop.MSHOME> In-Reply-To: <20010922011302.A44620@exxodus.fedaykin.here>; from lioux@uol.com.br on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 21:13:02 -0700 References: <20010922011302.A44620@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
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On 2001.09.21 21:13 Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While working on a make .mk code, I and Chris Wasser (TDF
> on IRC) came across an interesting behavior:
>
> sh -c 'TDF="echo a && echo b";for i in `${TDF}`; do echo "i:$i"; done'
>
> This should return:
>
> i:a
> i:b
>
> instead, it returns:
>
> i:a
> i:&&
> i:echo
> i:b
>
> If this is not a bug, how do we get it working?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
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This works:
$ sh -c 'TDF="echo a && echo b";for i in `eval ${TDF}`; do echo "i:$i";
done'
I believe eval is necessary in this context, otherwise the && is not
"evaluated." I checked, and the same behavior holds if sh is changed to
bash.
--
jmc
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