Re: help builtin bug ???

[Clark J. Wang]

2011/1/20 Sławomir Iwanek <slawomir.iwanek@poczta.fm>

> hello,
>
> and what about this:
>
> $ help ()
>
> it opens some program in an interactive mode (which one?). It seems like
> it does not react on any command, like '?', giving the output:
>
> bash: błąd składni przy nieoczekiwanym znaczniku `?'
>
> (it's in Polish - meaning syntax error at '?' mark)
>
> and quits immediately to the regular prompt in my shell.
>
> That's what bash should do by definition. :)

> Hope, it is not a way to get through any security in the system.
>
> How to analyze it?
>
> brgds,
> S.Iwanek
> PS -- I wrote about it also to Chet Ramey.
>
>
>
> Dnia 2011-01-20, o godz. 01:22:31
> Sławomir Iwanek <slawomir.iwanek@poczta.fm> napisał(a):
>
> > hello,
> >
> > I did something like that:
> >
> > $ help *
> >
> > and I got all the definitions of builtins starting from the letter 'c'
> > that is from 'caller' through 'coproc'.
> >
> > Well, my goal was - as you probably happen to know it already ;) - to
> > see if I could display ALL the builtins defs, but well... I got what I
> > got.
> >
> > My system: Fedora 14
> > My bash: GNU bash, version 4.1.7(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slawomir Iwanek
> >
>
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Clark