[Emacs-bug-tracker] bug#8654: closed (head)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: head Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:15:11 +0200

Hi I run the following line:

 

$ set header = `head -5 ~/buffer/t1xp_axi2rgv_fifo.vhd`

 

and get:

 

Missing }.

 

Any ideas?

 

Running on:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 7)

$ uname -r

2.6.9-78.0.13.ELlargesmp

 

Thanks

Ivan

 

 

Ivan Di Prima

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t1xp_axi2rgv_fifo.vhd
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#8654: head Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:30:22 -0600 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc14 Lightning/1.0b3pre Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.10

tag 8654 notabug
close 8654
thanks

On 05/11/2011 02:15 AM, Ivan DI PRIMA wrote:
> Hi I run the following line:
> 
> $ set header = `head -5 ~/buffer/t1xp_axi2rgv_fifo.vhd`
> 
> and get:
> 
> Missing }.
> 
> Any ideas?

Thanks for the report.  However, this is not a bug in head, but in your
usage of your shell.

What does this output:

head -5 ~/buffer/t1xp_axi2rgv_fifo.vhd

If it is not valid csh shell script (and I'm assuming your using csh,
based on your syntax for using set), then that explains why csh, not
head, is complaining that after the `` substitution has completed, the
resulting text can't be parsed (because it is unquoted, the shell may be
trying to do word splitting on the results, but is getting thrown off by
unbalanced {} in the words to be split).  I'm not a csh user, but does
adding "" around the `` help, as in:

set header = "`head -5 ~/buffer/t1xp_axi2rgv_fifo.vhd`"

I'm marking this bug closed, although we can always reopen it if you can
prove that the problem was in head rather than in your use of shell code.

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