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ID Category Severity Type Date Submitted Last Update
0000941 [1003.1(2013)/Issue7+TC1] Shell and Utilities Editorial Error 2015-04-28 21:31 2019-06-15 06:56
Reporter stephane View Status public  
Assigned To
Priority normal Resolution Accepted As Marked  
Status Closed  
Name Stephane Chazelas
Organization
User Reference
Section locale
Page Number 2872
Line Number 94572
Interp Status ---
Final Accepted Text See Note: 0002706
Summary 0000941: Unreliable example using "locale yesexpr"
Description The example there has:

if printf "%s\n" "$response" | grep -Eq "$(locale yesexpr)"
then
    affirmative processing goes here
else
    non-affirmative processing goes here
fi

However, there are three problems with that at least:

- That returns true if yesexpr matches any of the lines in $response, not $response as a whole
- That fails if yesexpr starts with - (unlikely in practice)
- That fails if yesexpr ends in newline characters (unlikely in practice)
Desired Action A more correct example (still doesn't address point 3) may be:

if awk 'BEGIN{exit(!(ARGV[1] ~ ARGV[2]))}' "$response" "$(locale yesexpr)"
...
Tags tc2-2008
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(0002706)
nick (manager)
2015-06-11 15:19

 Update example on page 2872, lines 94572-94577 to:
    printf 'Prompt for response: '
    read response
    if printf "%s\n" "$response" | grep −Eq -- "$(locale yesexpr)"
    then
        affirmative processing goes here
    else
        non-affirmative processing goes here
    fi
(0002707)
stephane (reporter)
2015-06-11 15:41

 Thanks Nick. That does address points 1 and 2 and clarifies that the response being checked is one-line. Where it may be improved is that in a locale where yesexpr is ^[yY].* for instance, that would return affirmative for an input like " \y" because of the extra processing done by "read" by default.

    IFS= read -r response

would probably be more correct, though leaving out the "IFS=" part may be considered as a feature (ignore leading and trailing unescaped space characters, but then again there may be locales where space means yes ;))
(0002708)
stephane (reporter)
2015-06-11 15:57

 One could also argue that issuing a prompt in the English language and expecting an answer in the user's language is not the best design ;-).
(0004424)
stephane (reporter)
2019-06-14 21:36

 Looking at the 2018 edition line 96034, it seems the fix for this bug has not been applied properly. It reads:

grep -- -Eq "$(locale yesexpr)"

Instead of:

grep -Eq -- "$(locale yesexpr)"

(or grep -Eqe "$(locale yesexpr)")
(0004426)
geoffclare (manager)
2019-06-15 06:55

 Re: Note: 0004424 You are correct, but this is not the right place to report your observation. This bug references Issue7+TC1 which does not have the problem you observed. You should submit a new bug against the version of the standard that has the new problem, i.e. Issue7+TC2.

- Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2015-04-28 21:31 stephane New Issue
2015-04-28 21:31 stephane Name => Stephane Chazelas
2015-04-28 21:31 stephane Section => http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html [^]
2015-04-28 21:31 stephane Page Number => http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html#tag_20_68_17 [^]
2015-04-28 21:31 stephane Line Number => http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html#tag_20_68_17 [^]
2015-06-11 15:19 nick Note Added: 0002706
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Section http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html [^] => locale
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Page Number http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html#tag_20_68_17 [^] => 2872
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Line Number http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/locale.html#tag_20_68_17 [^] => 94572
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Interp Status => ---
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Final Accepted Text => See Note: 0002706
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Status New => Resolved
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Resolution Open => Accepted As Marked
2015-06-11 15:21 nick Tag Attached: tc2-2008
2015-06-11 15:41 stephane Note Added: 0002707
2015-06-11 15:57 stephane Note Added: 0002708
2019-06-10 08:54 agadmin Status Resolved => Closed
2019-06-14 21:36 stephane Note Added: 0004424
2019-06-14 21:36 stephane Status Closed => Under Review
2019-06-14 21:36 stephane Resolution Accepted As Marked => Reopened
2019-06-15 06:55 geoffclare Note Added: 0004426
2019-06-15 06:55 geoffclare Status Under Review => Closed
2019-06-15 06:56 geoffclare Resolution Reopened => Accepted As Marked

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