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Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles
From: |
Greg Wooledge |
Subject: |
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:21:26 -0400 |
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NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) |
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 3/20/19 8:19 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> > Even if Chet changed how here docs work in bash 5.1, nobody would
> > be safe to use those features in their "I'm feeding a password with
> > a here string" scripts for at least 20 years, because there will
> > still be people running older versions of bash for at least that long.
>
> Snark aside, this is a serious consideration. Linux distros are still
> shipping with bash-4.2 (and not with all the patches applied, either),
> which was originally released in late 2010.
And Mac OS X is still shipping bash 3.2. Please believe me, this was
intended as a completely serious issue. We deal with it in IRC all the
time.
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles, Chet Ramey, 2019/03/22
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, 2019/03/19
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles, Robert Elz, 2019/03/19
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles, Chet Ramey, 2019/03/22
Re: "here strings" and tmpfiles, Chet Ramey, 2019/03/22