shell parsing bug with &>

Harald Becker ralda at gmx.de
Fri Sep 7 06:49:55 UTC 2012


Hi Rich !

On 07-09-2012 01:00 Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
>I'm not doing it. I'm just uncomfortable with having a shell that will
>misinterpret conforming, albeit obfuscatd, shell scripts from third
>parties, and was giving one such example. I suspect the main place
>such code might come from a is a script that obfuscates and/or removes
>all unnecessary whitespace from a given shell script.

IMO the bug is in the obfuscater which shall not remove white space
after "&" if followed by another special symbol. A bug that needs to be
fixed to keep compatibility with all systems. Shouldn't be difficult to
fix this.

-- 
Harald


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