Re: ls doesn't work in if statements in bash 4.3

[billycongo]

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 8:30:12 PM UTC-4, billy...@gmail.com wrote:
> I tested on bash 4.3 and 3.0
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> testing]$ bash --version
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> bash --version
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> GNU bash, version 4.3.0(1)-release (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
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> In a directory I have:
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> testing]$ ls -l
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> total 16
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 hpierce hpierce 77 Mar 26 20:09 dog1
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 hpierce hpierce 77 Mar 26 20:09 dog2
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 hpierce hpierce 77 Mar 26 20:09 dog3
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 hpierce hpierce  0 Mar 26 20:07 dog4
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 hpierce hpierce 80 Mar 26 20:02 test
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> dog1, dog2, and dog3 have content.  dog4 is empty.
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> test is a simple script:
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> testing]$ cat test
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> #!/bin/bash
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> FILE=$1
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> echo $FILE
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> if [ ! -e $FILE ]
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> then
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>       echo "Usage: $0 <file>"
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>       exit 1
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> else
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>         echo $FILE exists
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> fi
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> Here's a regular run:
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> testing]$ for f in *; do ./test $f; done
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> dog1
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> dog1 exists
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> dog2
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> dog2 exists
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> dog3
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> dog3 exists
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> dog4
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> dog4 exists
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> test
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> test exists
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> Now I add a ls:
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> testing]$ for f in `ls dog*`; do ./test $f; done
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> dog1
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> Usage: ./test <file>
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> dog2
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> Usage: ./test <file>
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> dog3
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> Usage: ./test <file>
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> dog4
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> Usage: ./test <file>
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> So I moved it to an earlier version of bash
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> testing]$ bash --version
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> bash --version
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> GNU bash, version 3.00.15(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
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> testing]$ for f in `ls dog*`; do ./test $f; done
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> dog1
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> dog1 exists
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> dog2
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> dog2 exists
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> dog3
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> dog3 exists
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> dog4
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> dog4 exists


I thought about the changes I have made recently and I had added the following 
into my .bashrc:

eval $(dircolors -b ~/.dir_colors)

I commented it out, and now everything works.  I think it's still a bug, though 
I know how to fix it.