Re: is it a bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/17/20 7:56 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:36:48PM -0800, L A Walsh wrote:
> > or (to reproduce error):
> >   an_alias='res=() t=""
> >             for ci in "${!foo[@]}"; do \
>
> Nice detective work there.  I can confirm this in Debian's bash 5.0.3:
>
> unicorn:~$ alias foo='a=() b=""
> > for i in 1; do echo hi; done'
> unicorn:~$ foo
> bash: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
> unicorn:~$ alias bar='a=()
> > b=""
> > for i in 1; do echo hi; done'
> unicorn:~$ bar
> hi

Interesting. Thanks for the simple reproducer, both of you. I'll take a
look after bash-5.1 is out.

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