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From: Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ':' noop results in ':: not found'
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 12:54:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56849947.Cgj98o2q7x@blitz-lx> (raw)

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Hi,

maybe you can enlighten me :-)

I try to use dash (0.5.8-2.3) on Debian unstable for executing ./configure 
scripts. Since Debian builds with --disable-lineno, all ./configure scripts 
silently fall back to bash (I created bug report #842242 to get this fixed).

Next I rebuilt the package from the (Debian) sources without --disable-lineno 
and installed it. Now I see error messages from dash when it comes to the do 
nothing operator :.

$ dash -c 'test -n "a" && :'
dash: 1: :: not found
$ echo $?
127

$ bash -c 'test -n "a" && :'
$ echo $?
0

Since this : construct is wildly used and I know that dash on other systems 
work with it, I wonder what is wrong here.

Is there a known bug, maybe fixed on recent dash versions ?
Or has this some simple reason my stupidity doesn't see ?

Regards, Tim

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-28 10:54 Tim Ruehsen [this message]
2016-10-28 11:22 ` ':' noop results in ':: not found' Harald van Dijk
2016-10-28 13:08   ` Tim Ruehsen

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