Re: [Nano-devel] [PATCH] linter definitions

[Mark Oteiza]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:

> On 18 Apr 2015 18:13, Mark Oteiza wrote:
>> where sh is linked to bash, nano does not
>> recognize the output.

> # touch test.sh
> # ln -sf bash /bin/sh
> # sh -n test.sh
>
> # echo '(' > test.sh
> # sh -n test.sh
> test.sh: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> # bash -n test.sh
> test.sh: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> # dash -n test.sh
> test.sh: 2: test.sh: Syntax error: end of file unexpected

Notice the difference in output between dash and bash.  nano does not
know how to parse the output from bash because of the word "line" that
bash prints with the line number.