Re: Host/nslookup, sendmail, bash

[Bob Clark <rlclark@usa.net>]

Tessa Lau wrote:
> 
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> 
> 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
> tlau@cs.washington.edu


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