Re: unreliable value of LINENO variable

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/4/23 2:24 PM, Giacomo Comes wrote:

> The script I was using was more complicated.
> I did simplify it and I tested the simpler version only with bash 5.0, assuming
> it would fail with 5.1 and 5.2 too.
> The following one fails with every 5.x version:
> ------------------------------------------------
> #!/bin/bash
>
> if ((1)); then
>          ( : ) | : ; echo 1 $LINENO
> fi
> echo 2 $LINENO
> ------------------------------------------------
> Need to add a pipe after the subshell command.

Thanks for the updated example. There are several fixes in the devel
branch regarding LINENO.

This particular issue was fixed back in September, 2022 as the result of

https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110714

Chet
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