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From: chet@kiwi.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: Bash Bug in parsing/job control
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Date: 19 Jul 89 18:43:16 GMT
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Lee Kolakowski writes:

>This is bash 1.02 on a Sun3/140 compiled with cc from Sun, in Sunos 4.0

>$ make & ; ls
>syntax error near `;'
>
>Why????

Because it is not allowed by the grammar in parse.y.  I don't know where the
grammar came from; it might have been a result of the POSIX 1003.2 work 
(remember, bash is an implementation of the POSIX shell spec).

>$ TEST_VAR=junk
>
>does it show up in the environment without explicitly being exported?

This is bash 1.02 running on an IBM-RT running 4.3 BSD (the same behavior 
is observed on a Vax running Ultrix 3.0 and a Sun running SunOS 3.5):

cwns5$ TEST=dhdh
cwns5$ echo $TEST
dhdh
cwns5$ printenv | grep TEST
cwns5$ 

This doesn't look like it shows up in the environment to me...

Chet Ramey

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