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From hongyi.zhao@gmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 29 22:53:58 2023

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows:

werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.csh
bash: debuginfod.csh.save: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/gawk.csh
bash: alias: gawkpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name bash: alias: gawkpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawkpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/vte.csh
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `!'
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: `if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit'

Below are the contents of the above scripts:

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat debuginfod.csh
# $HOME/.login* or similar files may first set $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# If $DEBUGINFOD_URLS is not set there, we set it from system *.url files.
# $HOME/.*rc or similar files may then amend $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# See also [man debuginfod-client-config] for other environment variables
# such as $DEBUGINFOD_MAXSIZE, $DEBUGINFOD_MAXTIME, $DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS.

if (! $?DEBUGINFOD_URLS) then
set prefix="/usr"
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`sh -c 'cat "$0"/*.urls; :' "/etc/debuginfod" 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' '`
if ( "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS" != "" ) then
setenv DEBUGINFOD_URLS "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS"
else
unset DEBUGINFOD_URLS
endif
unset prefix
endif

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat gawk.csh.save
alias gawkpath_default 'unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawkpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "\!*"":$AWKPATH"'

alias gawkpath_append 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "$AWKPATH"":\!*"'

alias gawklibpath_default 'unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawklibpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "\!*"":$AWKLIBPATH"'

alias gawklibpath_append 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "$AWKLIBPATH"":\!*"'

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat vte.csh.save
# Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Red Hat Author(s): Carlos Santos

# exit if non-interactive, csh, no terminal or old VTE versions
if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit

switch($TERM)
case xterm*:
alias precmd 'echo -n "\e]7;file://$HOST"; /usr/libexec/vte-urlencode-cwd; echo -n "\e\\"'
endsw

I'm not familiar with these csh syntax in them. Any tips to fix these problems?

Regards,
Zhao

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From Janis Papanagnou@21:1/5 to hongy...@gmail.com on Mon Jan 30 08:52:54 2023

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.csh
bash: debuginfod.csh.save: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat vte.csh.save
# Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc.

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm not familiar with these csh syntax in them. Any tips to fix these

problems?

You are running 'csh' scripts (that stem from Redhat) with a 'bash'.
So depending on who activated/called these scripts my suggestions are
to use a csh interpreter (as opposed to a bash) to call the scripts,
or, contact Redhat support if their distribution is buggy (which I'd
consider unlikely, though).

Janis

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows:

werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.csh
bash: debuginfod.csh.save: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/gawk.csh
bash: alias: gawkpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawkpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawkpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/vte.csh
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `!'
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: `if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit'

Below are the contents of the above scripts:

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat debuginfod.csh
# $HOME/.login* or similar files may first set $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# If $DEBUGINFOD_URLS is not set there, we set it from system *.url files.
# $HOME/.*rc or similar files may then amend $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# See also [man debuginfod-client-config] for other environment variables
# such as $DEBUGINFOD_MAXSIZE, $DEBUGINFOD_MAXTIME, $DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS.

if (! $?DEBUGINFOD_URLS) then
set prefix="/usr"
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`sh -c 'cat "$0"/*.urls; :' "/etc/debuginfod" 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' '`
if ( "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS" != "" ) then
setenv DEBUGINFOD_URLS "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS"
else
unset DEBUGINFOD_URLS
endif
unset prefix
endif

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat gawk.csh.save
alias gawkpath_default 'unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawkpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "\!*"":$AWKPATH"'

alias gawkpath_append 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "$AWKPATH"":\!*"'

alias gawklibpath_default 'unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawklibpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "\!*"":$AWKLIBPATH"'

alias gawklibpath_append 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "$AWKLIBPATH"":\!*"'

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat vte.csh.save
# Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Red Hat Author(s): Carlos Santos

# exit if non-interactive, csh, no terminal or old VTE versions
if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit

switch($TERM)
case xterm*:
alias precmd 'echo -n "\e]7;file://$HOST"; /usr/libexec/vte-urlencode-cwd; echo -n "\e\\"'
endsw

I'm not familiar with these csh syntax in them. Any tips to fix these problems?

Regards,
Zhao

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From Jalen Q@21:1/5 to Janis Papanagnou on Sun Mar 5 16:51:04 2023

On Monday, January 30, 2023 at 1:53:00 AM UTC-6, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.csh
bash: debuginfod.csh.save: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat vte.csh.save
# Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc.

On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

I'm not familiar with these csh syntax in them. Any tips to fix these

problems?
You are running 'csh' scripts (that stem from Redhat) with a 'bash'.
So depending on who activated/called these scripts my suggestions are
to use a csh interpreter (as opposed to a bash) to call the scripts,
or, contact Redhat support if their distribution is buggy (which I'd consider unlikely, though).

Janis
On 30.01.2023 07:53, hongy...@gmail.com wrote:

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows:

werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/debuginfod.csh
bash: debuginfod.csh.save: line 17: syntax error: unexpected end of file werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/gawk.csh
bash: alias: gawkpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawkpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawkpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_default: not found
bash: alias: `unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_prepend: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
bash: alias: gawklibpath_append: not found
bash: alias: `if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH ': invalid alias name
werner@X10DAi:~$ . /etc/profile.d/vte.csh
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `!'
bash: vte.csh.save: line 19: `if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit'

Below are the contents of the above scripts:

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat debuginfod.csh
# $HOME/.login* or similar files may first set $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# If $DEBUGINFOD_URLS is not set there, we set it from system *.url files. # $HOME/.*rc or similar files may then amend $DEBUGINFOD_URLS.
# See also [man debuginfod-client-config] for other environment variables # such as $DEBUGINFOD_MAXSIZE, $DEBUGINFOD_MAXTIME, $DEBUGINFOD_PROGRESS.

if (! $?DEBUGINFOD_URLS) then
set prefix="/usr"
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`sh -c 'cat "$0"/*.urls; :' "/etc/debuginfod" 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' '`
if ( "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS" != "" ) then
setenv DEBUGINFOD_URLS "$DEBUGINFOD_URLS"
else
unset DEBUGINFOD_URLS
endif
unset prefix
endif

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat gawk.csh.save
alias gawkpath_default 'unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawkpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "\!*"":$AWKPATH"'

alias gawkpath_append 'if (! $?AWKPATH) setenv AWKPATH ""; if ($AWKPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKPATH; setenv AWKPATH `gawk -v x=AWKPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKPATH "$AWKPATH"":\!*"'

alias gawklibpath_default 'unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`'

alias gawklibpath_prepend 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "\!*"":$AWKLIBPATH"'

alias gawklibpath_append 'if (! $?AWKLIBPATH) setenv AWKLIBPATH ""; if ($AWKLIBPATH == "") then; unsetenv AWKLIBPATH; setenv AWKLIBPATH `gawk -v x=AWKLIBPATH "BEGIN {print ENVIRON[x]}"`; endif; setenv AWKLIBPATH "$AWKLIBPATH"":\!*"'

werner@X10DAi:~$ cat vte.csh.save
# Copyright © 2019 Red Hat, Inc.
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# Red Hat Author(s): Carlos Santos

# exit if non-interactive, csh, no terminal or old VTE versions
if ( ! $?prompt | ! $?tcsh | ! $?TERM | ! $?VTE_VERSION ) exit

switch($TERM)
case xterm*:
alias precmd 'echo -n "\e]7;file://$HOST"; /usr/libexec/vte-urlencode-cwd; echo -n "\e\\"'
endsw

I'm not familiar with these csh syntax in them. Any tips to fix these problems?

Regards,
Zhao

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From jmccue@neutron.hsd1.ma.comcast.net@21:1/5 to hongy...@gmail.com on Mon Mar 6 04:44:08 2023

hongy...@gmail.com <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped
environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows:

<snip>

I was having hard time reading your post due it formatting
and I am very tied now. I do not know where the scripts
begin/end, maybe put each script in their own pastebin type
URL.

But a quick look at thss line for csh
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=.....
is wrong, it seems to be using the '2>'
which is invalid for csh

I suggest you contact the distro maintainer of the scripts,
maybe file a bug report.

--
[t]csh(1) - "An elegant shell, for a more... civilized age."
- Paraphrasing Star Wars

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From Keith Thompson@21:1/5 to jmccue@neutron.hsd1.ma.comcast.net on Sun Mar 5 20:49:15 2023

<jmccue@neutron.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> writes:

hongy...@gmail.com <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped
environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows: >>

<snip>

I was having hard time reading your post due it formatting
and I am very tied now. I do not know where the scripts
begin/end, maybe put each script in their own pastebin type
URL.

But a quick look at thss line for csh
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=.....
is wrong, it seems to be using the '2>'
which is invalid for csh

The line in question is:

set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`sh -c 'cat "$0"/*.urls; :' "/etc/debuginfod" 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' '`

The "2>" is part of a string passed to sh to be executed.

I suggest you contact the distro maintainer of the scripts,
maybe file a bug report.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for XCOM Labs
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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From Keith Thompson@21:1/5 to Keith Thompson on Sun Mar 5 20:51:12 2023

Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

<jmccue@neutron.hsd1.ma.comcast.net> writes:

hongy...@gmail.com <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> wrote:

On Ubuntu 22.10, I noticed that some system shipped
environments initialization scripts have syntax or logic errors as follows: >>>

<snip>

I was having hard time reading your post due it formatting
and I am very tied now. I do not know where the scripts
begin/end, maybe put each script in their own pastebin type
URL.

But a quick look at thss line for csh
set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=.....
is wrong, it seems to be using the '2>'
which is invalid for csh

The line in question is:

set DEBUGINFOD_URLS=`sh -c 'cat "$0"/*.urls; :' "/etc/debuginfod" 2>/dev/null | tr '\n' ' '`

The "2>" is part of a string passed to sh to be executed.

I suggest you contact the distro maintainer of the scripts,
maybe file a bug report.

And if you look at the parent article, you'll note that the OP was
invoking a csh script from bash, so of course it's going to have errors.
This was already pointed out more than a month ago.

--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for XCOM Labs
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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