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[PATCH 0/2]: Update guile-bash

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From: david larsson <david.larsson <at> selfhosted.xyz>
To: 51791 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Guix-patches <guix-patches-bounces+david.larsson=selfhosted.xyz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#51791] [PATCH 2/2]: Update guile-bash
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:50:25 +0100

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On 2021-11-12 14:56, david larsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following 2 patches update the guile-bash source url and
> home-page, and adds a patch for it that does 2 things:
>   - fixes a bug, see below
>   - enables reading newline- or null-separated arguments via stdin to
> guile-bash-defined bash functions.
> 
> The bug is that guile-bash can't read string args with whitespaces in
> it. Example:
> ------------------------
> ~$ enable -f ~/.guix-profile/lib/bash/libguile-bash.so scm
> ~$ scm /tmp/printargs
> ~$ printargs "apa bepa" cepa
> In procedure printargs: scm-function called from Bash with args (apa
> bepa cepa) failed to match signature (file1 file2)
> ~$ cat /tmp/printargs
> (use-modules
>  (gnu bash))
> (define-bash-function (printargs file1 file2)
>     (display file1)
>     (display "\n")
>     (display file2)
>     (display "\n"))
> -------------------------
> 
> After this patch, you can read args "as normal", or via stdin that are
> either newline- or null-separated:
> -------------------------
> ~$ printargs "apa bepa" cepa
> apa bepa
> cepa
> ~$ echo "$apa"
> aba
> aca
> ~$ printf '%s\0' "$apa" bepa | printargs -z
> aba
> aca
> bepa
> ~$ echo "$apa" | printargs
> aba
> aca
> -------------------------
> 
> Best regards,
> David

[0002-gnu-guile-bash-Add-patch-that-fixes-reading-args.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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