Re: Inner Command Groups fail in Bash 5.2

[Kerin Millar]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 09:52:17 -0400
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> On 8/31/23 1:21 PM, Dima Korobskiy wrote:
> 
> > Bash Version: 5.2
> > Patch Level: 15
> > Release Status: release
> > 
> > Description:
> >          One of my Bash scripts started to fail all of a sudden and I was 
> > able to narrow down this problem to Bash upgrade itself (via Homebrew on a 
> > Mac): from 5.1.16 to 5.2.15.
> > It looks to me pretty serious: a lot of scripts might be potentially 
> > affected.
> 
> Thanks for the report. It's an easy fix:
> 
> 
> *** ../bash-20230818/parse.y  Wed Aug 23 09:56:19 2023
> --- parse.y   Fri Sep  1 09:29:27 2023
> ***************
> *** 3224,3227 ****
> --- 3224,3229 ----
>        case TIMEOPT:  /* time -p time pipeline */
>        case TIMEIGN:  /* time -p -- ... */
> +     case DOLPAREN:
> +     case DOLBRACE:
>          return 1;
>        default:

Would you mind supplying a diff for 5.2.15? For that version, I get:

./parse.y: In function ‘time_command_acceptable’:
./parse.y:3139:14: error: ‘DOLBRACE’ undeclared (first use in this function); 
did you mean ‘Q_DOLBRACE’

-- 
Kerin Millar