Re: [50 character or so descriptive subject here (for reference)]

[Chet Ramey]

> Machine Type: i386-redhat-linux-gnu
> 
> Bash Version: 2.04
> Patch Level: 11
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>       The behavior of bash differs from Bourne and Korn shells when
>       handling syntax such as "variable=value . script".  I'm not
>       sure how to describe it in detail - but the behavioral change
>       from Bourne/Korn shell to Bash is exhibited in the test scripts
>       attached to this bug report.
> 
>       The impact to us is that bourne shell scripts using the above
>       syntax on man Unix platforms fail on Redhat Linux which uses
>       bash as it's default command interpreter (symlink to /bin/sh).

Half of this was easy to fix; the other half surprisingly tricky.  The fix
will appear in bash-2.05.

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Chet Ramey, CWRU    chet@po.CWRU.Edu    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/