The "exp" builtin is undocumented, non-standard and not very useful.
If exp's return value is not used, something like
VAR=$(exp EXPRESSION)
is equivalent to
VAR=$((EXPRESSION))
except that errors in the expression are fatal and quoting special
characters is not needed in the latter case.
If exp's return value is used, something like
if exp EXPRESSION >/dev/null
can be replaced by
if [ $((EXPRESSION)) -ne 0 ]
with similar differences.
The exp-run showed that "let" is close enough to bash's and ksh's builtin
that removing it would break a few ports. Therefore, "let" remains in 9.x.
PR: bin/104432
Exp-run done by: pav (with some other sh(1) changes)
CDPATH should be ignored not only for pathnames starting with '/' but also
for pathnames whose first component is '.' or '..'.
The man page already describes this behaviour.
If IFS is null, unquoted $@/$* should still expand to separate words.
This differs from quoted $@ (which does not depend on IFS) in that pathname
generation is performed and empty words are removed.
If the length of a directory in PATH together with the given filename
exceeded FILENAME_MAX (which may happen even for pathnames that work), a
static buffer was overflown.
The static buffer is unnecessary, we can use the stalloc() stack.
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 1 week
This reflects failure to determine the pathname of the new directory in the
exit status (1). Normally, cd returns successfully if it did chdir() and the
call was successful.
In POSIX, -e only has meaning with -P; because our -L is not entirely
compliant and may fall back to -P mode, -e has some effect with -L as well.
This is sometimes used with eval or old-style command substitution, and most
shells other than ash derivatives allow it.
It can also be used with scripts that violate POSIX's requirement on the
application that they end in a newline (scripts must be text files except
that line length is unlimited).
Example:
v=`cat <<EOF
foo
EOF`
echo $v
This commit does not add support for the similar construct with new-style
command substitution, like
v=$(cat <<EOF
foo
EOF)
This continues to require a newline after the terminator.
Because we have no iconv in base, support for other charsets is not
possible.
Note that \u/\U are processed using the locale that was active when the
shell started. This is necessary to avoid behaviour that depends on the
parse/execute split (for example when placing braces around an entire
script). Therefore, UTF-8 encoding is implemented manually.
?, [...] patterns match codepoints instead of bytes. They do not match
invalid sequences. [...] patterns must not contain invalid sequences
otherwise they will not match anything. This is so that ${var#?} removes the
first codepoint, not the first byte, without putting UTF-8 knowledge into
the ${var#pattern} code. However, * continues to match any string and an
invalid sequence matches an identical invalid sequence. (This differs from
fnmatch(3).)
This ensures that mbrtowc(3) can be used directly once it has been verified
that there is no CTL* byte. Dealing with a CTLESC byte within a multibyte
character would be complicated.
The new values do occur in iso-8859-* encodings. This decreases efficiency
slightly but should not affect correctness.
Caveat: Updating across this change and rebuilding without cleaning may
yield a subtly broken sh binary. By default, make buildworld will clean and
avoid problems.
A string between $' and ' may contain backslash escape sequences similar to
the ones in a C string constant (except that a single-quote must be escaped
and a double-quote need not be). Details are in the sh(1) man page.
This construct is useful to include unprintable characters, tabs and
newlines in strings; while this can be done with a command substitution
containing a printf command, that needs ugly workarounds if the result is to
end with a newline as command substitution removes all trailing newlines.
The construct may also be useful in future to describe unprintable
characters without needing to write those characters themselves in 'set -x',
'export -p' and the like.
The implementation attempts to comply to the proposal for the next issue of
the POSIX specification. Because this construct is not in POSIX.1-2008,
using it in scripts intended to be portable is unwise.
Matching the minimal locale support in the rest of sh, the \u and \U
sequences are currently not useful.
Exp-run done by: pav (with some other sh(1) changes)
Note that this only applies to variables that are actually used.
Things like (0 && unsetvar) do not cause an error.
Exp-run done by: pav (with some other sh(1) changes)
In particular, this makes things like ${#foo[0]} and ${#foo[@]} errors
rather than silent equivalents of ${#foo}.
PR: bin/151720
Submitted by: Mark Johnston
Exp-run done by: pav (with some other sh(1) changes)
For backgrounded pipelines and subshells, the previous value of $? was being
preserved, which is incorrect.
For backgrounded simple commands containing a command substitution, the
status of the last command substitution was returned instead of 0.
If fork() fails, this is an error.
If the -p option is turned off, privileges from a setuid or setgid binary
are dropped. Make sure to check if this succeeds. If it fails, this is an
error which will cause the shell to abort except in interactive mode or if
'command' was used to make 'set' or an outer 'eval' or '.' non-special.
Note that taking advantage of this feature and writing setuid shell scripts
seems unwise.
MFC after: 1 week
If EV_EXIT causes an exit, use the exception mechanism to unwind
redirections and local variables. This way, if the final command is a
redirected command, an EXIT trap now executes without the redirections.
Because of these changes, EV_EXIT can now be inherited by the body of a
function, so do so. This means that a function no longer prevents a fork
before an exec being skipped, such as in
f() { head -1 /etc/passwd; }; echo $(f)
Wrapping a single builtin in a function may still cause an otherwise
unnecessary fork with command substitution, however.
An exit command or -e failure still invokes the EXIT trap with the
original redirections and local variables in place.
Note: this depends on SHELLPROC being gone. A SHELLPROC depended on
keeping the redirections and local variables and only cleaning up the
state to restore them.
This is only a problem if IFS contains digits, which is unusual but valid.
Because of an incorrect fix for PR bin/12137, "${#parameter}" was treated
as ${#parameter}. The underlying problem was that "${#parameter}"
erroneously added CTLESC bytes before determining the length. This
was properly fixed for PR bin/56147 but the incorrect fix was not backed
out.
Reported by: Seeker on forums.freebsd.org
MFC after: 2 weeks
POSIX does not require the shell to fork for a subshell environment, and we
use that possibility in various ways (command substitutions with a single
command and most subshells that are the final command of a shell process).
Therefore do not tie subshells to forking in the man page.
Command substitutions with expansions are a bit strange, causing a fork for
$(...$(($x))...) because $x might expand to y=2; they will probably be
changed later but this is how they work now.
These already worked: $# ${#} ${##} ${#-} ${#?}
These now work as well: ${#+word} ${#-word} ${##word} ${#%word}
There is an ambiguity in the standard with ${#?}: it could be the length of
$? or it could be $# giving an error in the (impossible) case that it is not
set. We continue to use the former interpretation as it seems more useful.
