Bug 14527

Summary:	sh here-documents failure
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	kei <kei>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Martin Cracauer <cracauer>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	3.3-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description kei 1999-10-26 01:20:01 UTC

sh here-documents fails when using backquotes and up to 3 pipes.

How-To-Repeat: good.sh
------->------->------->------->------->------->
#!/bin/sh
cat <<_EOF_
`echo abc | cat | cat`
_EOF_
------->------->------->------->------->------->

%./good.sh
abc

is OK.

fail.sh
------->------->------->------->------->------->
#!/bin/sh
cat <<_EOF_
`echo abc | cat | cat | cat`
_EOF_
------->------->------->------->------->------->

%./fail.sh
cat: stdin: Bad file descriptor

Comment 1 Sheldon Hearn freebsd_committer

1999-10-26 10:45:42 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->cracauer

Over to Mr Shell. :-)

Comment 2 Martin Cracauer freebsd_committer

1999-11-05 12:07:00 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Fixed in -current. Will be merged into -stable before 3.4-RELEASE. 

Thanks for the bug report!