Re: [Bashdb-help] bashdb syntax error with for loop

[Rocky B. <roc...@gm...>]

Simple attempts to isolate the problem elude me so further research is
needed.

However I note if the debugger is installed and bash knows about it (i.e.
has been compiled the right way) then this seems to work even though the
banner comes out multiple times:

$/bin/bash --debugger /tmp/bashdbbug.sh
 Shell Debugger, release

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This is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
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Bourne-Again Shell Debugger, release

Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Rocky Bernstein
This is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.

 Shell Debugger, release

Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Rocky Bernstein
This is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.

(/tmp/bashdbbug.sh:3):
3:    for i in /bin /etc; do
bashdb<0> c
/bin
/etc

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Rob Woolley <rcw...@gm...> wrote:

> I tried using bashdb for the first time.  I was impressed with how well it
> was working on a 32000 line ./configure script.
>
> It had some trouble on line 23000 with a for loop.  I created a simple
> testcase that causes the problem to appear:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> for i in /bin /etc; do
>     echo $i
> done
>
> The script executes successfully without the debugger, but when the
> debugger is used it gives the following output:
>
> $ bashdb bashdb_test.sh
> bash debugger, release 4.0-0.3
>
> Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 Rocky Bernstein
> This is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
>
> (/tmp/bashdb_test.sh:3):
> 3:    for i in /bin /etc; do
> bashdb<0> c
> bashdb_test.sh: line 3: /bin: syntax error: operand expected (error token
> is "/bin")
> Debugged program terminated with code 1. Use q to quit or R to restart.
> bashdb<1>
>
> I'm using bashdb, release 4.0-0.3 on Fedora 11
>
> I'm happy to assist with the debugging if there's anything I can help with.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob
>
>
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