Bash (4.0.24) on OpenBSD 4.6 refuses to run this snippet: $ cat gomi.sh #!/bin/sh one="/var/tmp/1 1" rm -f /var/tmp/1 "/var/tmp/1 1" echo hello >$one $ sh gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1* /var/tmp/1 1 $ bash gomi.sh; ls /var/tmp/1* gomi.sh: line 4: $one: ambiguous redirect ls: /var/tmp/1*: No such file or directory Every competent shell programmer knows that a <$word in redirection is not subject to field splitting (POSIX.1 "2.7 Redirection" explicitly lists the kind of expansion performed: "... the word that follows the redirection operator shall be subjected to ...", and "Field Splitting" is not among them). Some clueless folks apparently decided that users need to be protected in the name of "security", however. Output from "git grep -e '> *\$' -- '*.sh'" indicates that rebase-i suffers from this bogus "safety". Work it around by surrounding the variable reference with a dq pair. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- * I don't regularly run OpenBSD and build test on the platform only occasionally. People who _do_ care about the platform perhaps need to run the testsuite to find and help fixing other possible issues. You will trigger this the path to your git work tree has whitespace in it, e.g. t3404. git-rebase--interactive.sh | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh index 19a608c..cecaa1d 100755 --- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh +++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ nth_string () { } update_squash_messages () { - if test -f "$SQUASH_MSG"; then + if test -f "$SQUASH_MSG" + then mv "$SQUASH_MSG" "$SQUASH_MSG".bak || exit COUNT=$(($(sed -n \ -e "1s/^# This is a combination of \(.*\) commits\./\1/p" \ @@ -378,7 +379,7 @@ update_squash_messages () { sed -e 1d -e '2,/^./{ /^$/d }' <"$SQUASH_MSG".bak - } >$SQUASH_MSG + } >"$SQUASH_MSG" else commit_message HEAD > "$FIXUP_MSG" || die "Cannot write $FIXUP_MSG" COUNT=2 @@ -387,7 +388,7 @@ update_squash_messages () { echo "# The first commit's message is:" echo cat "$FIXUP_MSG" - } >$SQUASH_MSG + } >"$SQUASH_MSG" fi case $1 in squash) @@ -403,7 +404,7 @@ update_squash_messages () { echo commit_message $2 | sed -e 's/^/# /' ;; - esac >>$SQUASH_MSG + esac >>"$SQUASH_MSG" } peek_next_command () { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html