libbash weekly report #11

Progress of previous week

• Fix problem with an odd number of semicolons inside declare strings
• Support appending to a variable an unquoted string with special characters like a minus
• Support implicit line break with a pipe at the end of the line
• Support function names starting with a keyword

Plan for this week

Now there’s 8 (from 197) eclasses left with parsing problems, that corresponds to 5 specific problems to fix.

• Fix problem with an odd number of single quotes inside here document (couldn’t solve this in the previous week)
• Fix variable substitution after variable attribution
• Support variable operator in builtin tests
• Support command substitution inside other command substitution
• Fix unwanted line continuation in comments

I’ve already worked with some of this before, but they’re not trivial to solve, so they were left for the end and I will try now to solve them.

https://github.com/Aparicio99/libbash