Introduce new prompt format characters:
- '\[' starts the sequence of non-printing chatacters
- '\]' ends the sequence of non-printing characters
Within these sequences, the following characters are now supported:
- '\a' emits ASCII BEL (0x07, 007) character
- '\e' emits ASCII ESC (0x1b, 033) character
- '\r' emits ASCII CR (0x0d, 015) character
- '\n' emits ASCII CRLF sequence
These can be used to embed ANSI sequences into prompt strings.
Example in .shrc:
PS1="\[\e[7m\]\u@\h\[\e[0m\]:\w \\$ "
This tries to maintain some degree of compatibility with GNU bash,
that uses GNU readline library (which behaves slightly different from
BSD editline): It has two "non-printing boundary" characters:
- RL_PROMPT_START_IGNORE (\001)
- RL_PROMPT_END_IGNORE (\002)
while BSD editline only has one (when using EL_PROMPT_ESC setting), so
for this purpose, ASCII \001 was chosen and both \[ and \] emits
this character.
And while here, enlarge PROMPTLEN from 128 to 192 characters.
Reviewed by: jilles
Approved by: jilles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D37701
Add -o verify to sh to make it use O_VERIFY when
sourcing scripts and reading profiles.
Useful in conjunction with mac_veriexec to help protect at
least some parts of the boot sequence, e.g., /etc/rc*.
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30464
Reviewed by: jilles, sjg
Obtained from: Stormshield
Implement persistent history storage:
the strategy is simple at start: loads the existing .sh_history file
at exit dump it.
The implementation respects the HISTFILE variable and its POSIX
definition: ~/.sh_history is used if HISTFILE is not set.
to avoid sh to create the history file, set HISTSIZE to 0 or HISTFILE to
en empty value
Co-authored-by: pstef
Reviewed by: jilles
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D29493
The manual page documents "\$" to expand to either "$" or "#" followed by
a single space. In reality, the single space character is not appended.
PR: 247791
Submitted by: kd-dev@pm.me
MFC after: 7 days
The pipefail option allows checking the exit status of all commands in a
pipeline more easily, at a limited cost of complexity in sh itself. It works
similarly to the option in bash, ksh93 and mksh.
Like ksh93 and unlike bash and mksh, the state of the option is saved when a
pipeline is started. Therefore, even in the case of commands like
A | B &
a later change of the option does not change the exit status, the same way
(A | B) &
works.
Since SIGPIPE is not handled specially, more work in the script is required
for a proper exit status for pipelines containing commands such as head that
may terminate successfully without reading all input. This can be something
like
(
cmd1
r=$?
if [ "$r" -gt 128 ] && [ "$(kill -l "$r")" = PIPE ]; then
exit 0
else
exit "$r"
fi
) | head
PR: 224270
Relnotes: yes
If CDPATH is used non-trivially or the operand is "-", cd writes the
directory actually switched to. (We currently do this only in interactive
shells, but POSIX requires this in non-interactive shells as well.)
As mentioned in Austin group bug #1045, cd shall not return an error while
leaving the current directory changed. Therefore, ignore any write error.
Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted
them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same
numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point.
Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu>
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
Per Austin group issue #884, always set IFS to $' \t\n'. As before, IFS will
be exported iff it was in the environment.
Most shells (e.g. bash, ksh93 and mksh) already did this. This change
improves predictability, in that scripts can simply rely on the default
value.
However, the effect on security is little, since applications should not be
calling the shell with attacker-controlled environment variable names in the
first place and other security-sensitive variables such as PATH should be
and are imported by the shell.
When using a new sh with an old (before 10.2) libc wordexp(), IFS is no
longer passed on. Otherwise, wordexp() continues to pass along IFS from the
environment per its documentation.
Discussed with: pfg
Relnotes: yes
POSIX requires this to prevent entering function definitions in history but
this implementation does nothing except retain the option's value. In ksh88,
function definitions were usually entered in the history file, even when
they came from ~/.profile and the $ENV file, to allow displaying their
definitions.
This is also the first option that does not have a letter.
The parser considered 'trap exit INT' to reset the default for both EXIT and
INT. This beahvior is not POSIX compliant. This was avoided if a value was
specified for 'exit', but then disallows exiting with the signal received. A
possible workaround is using ' exit'.
However POSIX does allow this type of behavior if the parameters are all
integers. Fix the handling for this and clarify its support in the manpage
since it is specifically allowed by POSIX.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2325
Reviewed by: jilles
MFC after: 2 weeks
Per Austin Group issue #459, shifting zero positional parameters may or may
not be considered an operand error (which causes the shell to exit in most
cases).
If an alias's value ends with a space or tab, the next word is also
checked for aliases.
This is a POSIX feature. It is useful with utilities like command and
nohup (alias them to themselves followed by a space).
Formerly, return always returned from a function if it was called from a
function, even if there was a closer dot script. This was for compatibility
with the Bourne shell which only allowed returning from functions.
Other modern shells and POSIX return from the function or the dot script,
whichever is closest.
Git 1.8.4's rebase --continue depends on the POSIX behaviour.
Reported by: Christoph Mallon, avg
* If read -t times out, return status as if interrupted by SIGALRM
(formerly 1).
* If a trapped signal interrupts read, return status 128+sig (formerly 1).
* If [EINTR] occurs but there is no trap, retry the read (for example
because of a SIGWINCH in interactive mode).
* If a read error occurs, write an error message and return status 2.
As before, a variable assignment error returns 2 and discards the remaining
data read.
In some other shells, things like $((a);(b)) are command substitutions.
Also, there are shells that have an extension ((ARITH)) that evaluates an
arithmetic expression and returns status 1 if the result is zero, 0
otherwise. This extension may lead to ambiguity with two subshells starting
in sequence.
Instead of rechecking relative paths for all hashed utilities after a cd,
track if any utility in cmdtable depends on a relative path in PATH.
If there is such a utility, cd clears the entire table.
As a result, the '*' in hash no longer happens.
Examples:
export x=~
now expands the tilde
local y=$1
is now safe, even if $1 contains IFS characters or metacharacters.
For a word to "look like an assignment", it must start with a name followed
by an equals sign, none of which may be quoted.
The special treatment applies when the first word (potentially after
"command") is "export", "readonly" or "local". There may be quoting
characters but no expansions. If "local" is overridden with a function there
is no special treatment ("export" and "readonly" cannot be overridden with a
function).
If things like
local arr=(1 2 3)
are ever allowed in the future, they cannot call a "local" function. This
would either be a run-time error or it would call the builtin.
This matches Austin Group bug #351, planned for the next issue of POSIX.1.
PR: bin/166771
quotation. Also make sure we have the same amount of columns in each row as
the number of columns we specify in the head arguments.
Reviewed by: brueffer
