Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:53:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug in bash 2.03's handling of compound commands?
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Richard Dawe wrote:

> It turned out that I was actually using bash 1.14.7. I upgraded to bash
> 2.03 and retested. The above commands work correctly in interactive mode
> under bash 2.03, unlike under bash 1.14.7. However, compound commands
> don't seem to work correctly in scripts. If I run the attached script,
> testcomp.sh, I get the following output:
> 
>     bash-2.03$ ./testcomp.sh
>     + bob
>     ./testcomp.sh: bob: command not found
>     + echo 127
>     127
>     + echo 0
>     0
>     + set +x

I think this is expected behavior: parenthesized commands run in a
sub-shell.  What seems to be wrong with this output?  Does a Unix box
behave differently?