On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:27:22AM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:49:15PM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote: > > > > Okay, it can be trivially modified to something that does work in other > > shells (even if it were actually executed), but gets rejected at parse time > > by dash: > > > > if false; then > > : ${$+ > > } > > fi > > That's just a bug in dash's parser with ${} in general, because > it bombs out without the if clause too: > > : ${$+ > } This patch fixes the parsing of newlines with parameter substitution. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/src/parser.c b/src/parser.c index ae76400..6a8a4a4 100644 --- a/src/parser.c +++ b/src/parser.c @@ -924,7 +924,8 @@ readtoken1(int firstc, char const *syntax, char *eofmark, int striptabs) CHECKSTRSPACE(4, out); /* permit 4 calls to USTPUTC */ switch(synstack->syntax[c]) { case CNL: /* '\n' */ - if (synstack->syntax == BASESYNTAX) + if (synstack->syntax == BASESYNTAX && + !synstack->varnest) goto endword; /* exit outer loop */ USTPUTC(c, out); nlprompt(); -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html