Re: shell-expand-line working strangely without shebangs

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/5/24 4:57 AM, Jae Juang wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.2
> Patch Level: 15
> Release Status: release
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>
> Description:
> In bash, the very useful shell-expand-line (`M-C-e`) expands command substitutions to 
> their contents, on the current line. However, this works very strangely for commands 
> without shebangs. Symptoms further described in "Repeat-By" section.

Hi. Thanks for the report. This is the same issue as reported in

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00095.html

The fix is described in

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2024-01/msg00101.html

and has been in the devel git branch since late January.

Chet

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