Revision history for BATsh
0.10 2026-08-01 JST (Japan Standard Time)
No behaviour of the shell changes in this release: apart from the
version numbers themselves, lib/ is untouched. Three CPAN Testers
FAILs for 0.09 were defects of the tests rather than of the shell,
and fixing them turned up a further group of assertions that could
never fail, a launcher that could shadow its own installed module,
and a distribution check that was enforcing something untrue.
- TEST FIX (t/0019-tempfile-security.t): TS01 and TS03 assert that a
temp file is created with open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL) and therefore never
follows a symlink that some other process planted at the candidate
path. That promise is POSIX. Win32 has no equivalent: CreateFile
with CREATE_NEW resolves a reparse point and creates the target
happily, so on a Windows smoker where symlink() happened to work
(Windows 10 and later with developer mode) the two cases reported a
difference in operating system semantics as a BATsh bug. Both are
now skipped on the Windows family, with the reason printed, exactly
as TS02 and TS04 already skipped their 0600 mode checks there.
Reported for BATsh-0.09 on MSWin32 with perl 5.42.0.
- TEST FIX (t/0015-cp932.t): CP12 writes to, and tests for, a file
whose name contains the raw CP932 byte pair 0x83 0x5C. Not every
environment can hold such a name: a Windows perl whose ANSI code
page is UTF-8 rejects it with ENOENT before BATsh is reached. The
case now probes the file system with plain perl first and skips,
with the reason printed, when the name is unusable, instead of
reporting a platform limit as a failure. Reported for BATsh-0.09 on
MSWin32 with perl 5.42.0.
- TEST FIX (t/0020-tilde-expansion.t): TE01 and TE02 compared the
directory reached by "cd ~" against Cwd::realpath(). On Win32 that
comparison is not portable -- realpath() and cwd() can disagree
about separator direction, drive letter case and 8.3 short names --
and it produced a FAIL on a Windows smoker whose tilde expansion was
in fact correct. Both now compare against the value cwd() reports
after perl itself has chdir()ed to the same directory, which is the
only reference that is guaranteed to be spelled identically.
Reported for BATsh-0.09 on MSWin32 with perl 5.18.4.
- TEST FIX (33 cases in t/0003, t/0006, t/0007, t/0009, t/0011, t/0020
and t/0032): an assertion written as
_ok($out =~ /wanted/, 'name');
evaluates the match in list context. A successful match with no
capture group yields (1), so the call is _ok(1, 'name') and behaves;
but a FAILED match yields the empty list, so the call collapses to
_ok('name') -- a true value -- and the case passed no matter what
the shell had printed. Every such assertion is now written
_ok(($out =~ /wanted/) ? 1 : 0, 'name');
which restores scalar context. TE03 of t/0020 was the one case that
had been silently passing over a real defect: it looks for a "cd:
... No such file or directory" diagnostic, which the shell writes to
STDERR, while the helper captured STDOUT only. The helper now
captures both streams and TE03 examines them together.
- TEST FIX (t/9060-readme.t): the file defined a local _pm_version(),
which INA_CPAN_Check has exported since 0.41, so every run of the
suite printed "Subroutine _pm_version redefined at t/9060-readme.t
line 47". The local copy is gone and the shared implementation is
used. "pmake dist" is now warning free.
- TEST FIX (t/0020, t/0026): the two cases that deliberately provoke a
shell diagnostic ("cd: ~user: No such file or directory", "sh:
...: No such file or directory") let it through to the console, so a
clean run looked like a broken one in the CPAN Testers output. Both
helpers now capture STDERR as well.
- CORRECTION: the 0.09 entry below states that writing "my (undef,
...)" to skip an element of a list assignment is a Perl 5.10
spelling. That is wrong, and this release withdraws the claim.
Perl 5.005_03 already accepts the form: its op.c my() carries an
explicit "else if (type == OP_UNDEF) return o;" branch, and perl
5.6.0 and 5.8.9 carry the same one, so the spelling has been legal
across the whole range BATsh supports. Nothing has to change in the
code -- the three declarations rewritten in 0.09 were correct
before and are correct now -- but the rule that prompted the rewrite
does, see the INA_CPAN_Check note below.
- TEST FIX (t/0020-tilde-expansion.t): TE02 built its scratch
directory with File::Temp, which is core only from 5.6.1. On
5.005_03 the "require File::Temp" inside its eval failed, the
failure was swallowed, and the case reported success without having
tested tilde expansion at all. The directory is now made with
mkdir(), whose own failure is the atomicity guarantee, in the same
spirit as the sysopen(O_CREAT|O_EXCL) used elsewhere in BATsh, and
it is removed again at the end of the case.
- FIX (bin/batsh.pl): the launcher added its sibling lib/ to @INC
unconditionally. That is right when the script is run out of an
unpacked distribution, but after installation into (say)
/usr/local/bin it put /usr/local/lib at the *head* of @INC on every
run, where a stale or unrelated BATsh.pm would shadow the copy that
had just been installed. The directory is now added only when a
MANIFEST sits beside it, which is what identifies an unpacked
distribution and is never true of an installation prefix.
- QA (t/9020-perl5compat.t): new check P13 rejects any module that
entered core after 5.005_03, in lib/, t/, bin/ and eg/ alike.
Wrapping such a load in eval does not satisfy it: that is precisely
what let the File::Temp call above sit unnoticed, since on the
oldest supported perl the eval simply failed and whatever depended
on the module stopped being tested. Each scanned file now
contributes 13 checks instead of 12.
- QA (t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm 0.41 -> 0.42): D4 used to reject
"my (undef, ...)" as Perl 5.10 syntax. It is not, as described
above, so the rule enforced a restriction that does not exist and
could only cause correct code to be rewritten. The slot is reused
for the post-5.005_03 core-module check that P13 also runs, sharing
one list (@POST_5005_MODULES) so the two cannot drift apart. The
number of checks per module is unchanged at six.
- QA (pmake.bat 0.44 -> 0.45): runtime prerequisites were collected
from lib/*.pm only, so a dependency that appeared solely in an
installed bin/ script never reached META -- BATsh shipped without
declaring FindBin, which bin/batsh.pl loads. The scan now covers
bin/*.pl as well, and the "lib" pragma is dropped from the result
alongside strict, warnings and vars.
- QA (pmake.bat 0.45 -> 0.46): the prerequisite scan matched "use
Module" only, so a module reached through "require Module" was
invisible to META. BATsh loads Cwd and POSIX that way and declared
neither. Both spellings are now collected, and they are not treated
alike: "use Module" and a bare "require Module" are unconditional and
become runtime requires, while a require inside eval is the pure Perl
way of writing "use this if it is here" -- the caller has a fallback
-- and becomes a recommendation instead. META.yml gains a
"recommends" block (spec 1.4) and META.json a
prereqs/runtime/recommends block (spec 2); Makefile.PL is unchanged,
since a recommendation must not enter PREREQ_PM. BATsh now declares
Cwd and POSIX under recommends, which is what the code actually
means. The scan also skips POD and full-line comments, so prose that
merely names a module can no longer invent a dependency.
- QA (pmake.bat 0.46): "pmake dist" runs its own copy of the K1 rule
over the sources listed in MANIFEST, and that copy did not say what
INA_CPAN_Check::check_K says. It exempted a comma followed by $, a
single quote or a double quote, on the reasoning that stripping a
string literal leaves a quote character behind -- but f("a","b")
really is missing the space, and so is f($x,$y), so the exemption was
hiding exactly the lines the rule exists to find. The two are now
spelled identically. Nothing in BATsh changes: the strict form finds
no violation anywhere in the set "pmake dist" scans.
- QA (t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm 0.42 -> 0.43): style group K ran over
lib/*.pm alone. Unlike D, E and G -- which demand a shape only a
module is obliged to have -- K1, K2 and K3 ask for a space after a
comma and for [ @array ] and { %hash } in place of \@array and
\%hash, which are questions of spelling that apply to any Perl
source. Restricting them to lib/ left most of a pure-Perl
distribution unchecked, so K now runs over lib/, bin/ and t/ as
listed in MANIFEST. Five lines needed respacing, none of which
changes what the code does: t/0003 208, t/0005 40 and t/0009 273
open(STDOUT,'>&...') in the STDOUT-capture helpers, and t/9080 55 68
ok(0,"..."). With group K widened the suite runs 2071 tests.
- QA (t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm 0.43): new check B8. B1 to B7 tie
$VERSION to META.yml, META.json, Makefile.PL and Changes, but the
"Version 0.00" line printed under =head1 VERSION was verified by
nothing -- G2 asks only that the heading exists. That line is what a
reader sees on metacpan and it is a hand-edited copy of a number kept
elsewhere, so it is precisely what goes stale unnoticed. B8 requires
every shipped Perl source carrying the heading -- lib/*.pm and the
bin/*.pl installed as EXE_FILES -- to state the distribution version
under it. It is one check for the distribution, so check_B goes from
six per module plus one to six per module plus two.
- bin/batsh.pl: gains the =head1 VERSION section the five modules
already carry, so the installed launcher documents which release it
belongs to. B8 above keeps it from drifting.
- Changes: this entry is dated 2026-08-01 JST, the day of the upload.
0.09 2026-07-27 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- FIX (SH, Windows): the result of an expansion is literal data, not
shell source. A line is expanded first and has its quotes removed
afterwards, and the quote-removal stage could not tell text written
in the script from text an expansion had just produced: every
backslash coming out of a variable, a command substitution or a
tilde expansion was re-read as a shell escape and deleted. With
HOME set to C:\home\flower,
cd ~ tried to enter C:homeflower
d="C:\Users\x" ; cd $d tried to enter C:Usersx
so practically every Windows pathname that travelled through a
variable was destroyed. This is what made t/0020-tilde-expansion.t
(TE01 TE02 TE04 TE07) fail in the CPAN Testers report for
BATsh-0.08 on Windows with perl 5.8.9.
POSIX quote removal applies to the source word only, never to the
result of an expansion, and BATsh now follows that rule. A
backslash produced by an expansion is held behind a NUL-delimited
sentinel -- a NUL can never occur in shell source -- until quote
removal has finished, while a backslash written in the script keeps
its escaping meaning. Protected are all of $VAR, ${VAR} and the
whole ${VAR...} family, array elements and ${arr[@]}, $1..$9, $@,
$*, $0, $( ... ), `...` and tilde expansion; the literal backslash
is restored again for the consumers that never dequote (external
command lines, here-document bodies, the variable store).
A tilde expansion is additionally protected against field
splitting, so a home directory whose name contains a space stays a
single word, as POSIX requires.
- FIX (SH): "test" / "[" now removes quotes from its operands the
same way command words do, instead of stripping one leading and one
trailing double quote. A half-stripped operand such as
"C:\dir"/sub could never name an existing file.
- FIX (SH): filename globbing keeps only names that exist. When
nothing matches, glob() hands the pattern back with its escape
backslashes already removed, which silently turned an unmatched
C:\dir\*.txt into C:dir*.txt. POSIX leaves an unmatched pattern
untouched, and so does BATsh now.
- FIX (SH): "echo -e" interprets \n, \t, \r and \\ arriving from an
expansion ("v='a\tb' ; echo -e $v") as well as from the source.
- FIX (SH): "export VAR=value" stores the value rather than the quote
characters around it. "export V='C:\x'" used to export the quotes
as part of the value, and "export V='a b'" was truncated at the
space; the operands are now split on unquoted whitespace and
dequoted exactly like an ordinary assignment.
- FIX (SH and CMD, Windows): pathname expansion no longer goes
through Perl's glob(). glob() reads a BACKSLASH AS AN ESCAPE
character, so an ordinary Windows pattern
d="C:\dir" ; for f in $d/*.txt ; do ... done
was searched for as C:dir/*.txt, matched nothing, and came back
with its backslashes deleted. File::Glob's GLOB_NOESCAPE would
have avoided that, but File::Glob needs Perl 5.6 and BATsh supports
5.005_03, so the matcher (BATsh::SH::_glob_paths) is now part of
BATsh and walks a pattern one path segment at a time, reusing the
module's own glob-to-regex translator:
* the separator is "/" everywhere and "\" as well on Windows, where
that is simply how a path is written; on Unix a backslash remains
an ordinary character in a filename, so a directory really named
"a\b" keeps working;
* a leading "." is matched only by a pattern that starts with ".",
and every segment but the last has to name a directory;
* the separators written in the pattern are the separators returned,
matches are sorted, case is ignored on Windows, and only names
that exist come back -- a pattern matching nothing is left exactly
as written, as POSIX requires;
* an unusable pattern (an empty or reversed character class) is
taken literally instead of leaking a Perl regex warning.
CMD-mode wildcards (FOR %f IN (...), DEL) use the same matcher.
- FIX (SH): a backslash written inside quotes survives a line that
also contains a filename pattern. Such a line is split into words
(which removes the quotes) and the rebuilt line is dequoted again,
and that second pass read the now unquoted backslash as an escape:
echo "C:\dir"/*.txt printed C:dir/*.txt. The quoted text is marked
as data when the words are rebuilt, so only a backslash written
OUTSIDE quotes is still an escape, exactly as in bash.
Which is worth spelling out, because the two modes differ: a
CMD-mode line has no escape character and takes C:\dir\*.txt as
written, while an SH-mode line follows bash, where a bare
echo C:\dir\*.txt means C:dir*.txt. In SH mode a Windows pattern
belongs in quotes or, as in any real script, in a variable, where
its backslashes are data and stay separators. See "Pathname
Expansion" in BATsh::SH.
- FIX (SH): "[!abc]" in a filename pattern and in a ${VAR%pat}-family
pattern now negates the character class. Perl reads "[!abc]" as
the class of "!", "a", "b" and "c", so the negation was inverted.
(Case patterns already handled it.)
- NEW (SH): "set" implements its POSIX operands. "set -- ARG ..."
replaces the positional parameters, "set --" clears them, and a
first operand that is not an option does the same, as in
"set a b c". They are stored the way a function call and "shift"
store them, so $1..$9, $@, $*, $#, shift and getopts all see them,
and the standard
set -- -f value extra
while getopts f: opt ; do ... done
shift $((OPTIND - 1))
idiom now works: until 0.09 every operand of "set" was silently
ignored, so getopts fell back to an argument list that was never
filled in. OPTIND is left alone, as in bash.
- FIX (CMD): DEL and DIR no longer mistake a forward-slash pathname
for their own switches. The old code removed every "/word" run
from the argument, so "DEL /tmp/log/*.tmp" lost "/tmp" and "/log".
Only a real switch letter (/P /F /S /Q /A[:attrs] for DEL, and the
DIR set), standing as a word of its own, is removed now.
- POD: every module now carries a =head1 VERSION section.
BATsh::CMD, BATsh::Env and BATsh::SH had none, which the shared
ina@CPAN distribution checks (G2) require of every lib/*.pm. Note
for future releases: a version bump now touches five POD VERSION
lines, not two.
- Perl 5.005_03: the three "my (undef, ...)" declarations in
BATsh.pm and BATsh::SH are written as a list plus an index instead.
Skipping an element that way inside "my" is a Perl 5.10 spelling,
and the distribution supports 5.005_03.
- eg/06_sh_comprehensive.batsh: trailing whitespace removed from
three lines (no change to what the example prints).
- QA: the shared ina@CPAN maintenance files are updated to the
current common versions -- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm 0.37 -> 0.41 and
pmake.bat 0.40 -> 0.42. The newer checker adds per-module POD and
version checks and a Changes-format group, and
t/9030-distribution.t now calls that group (L1-L3) as well.
pmake.bat 0.42 restores the generated Makefile.PL's EXE_FILES
clause, which 0.41 had dropped: without it "make install" does not
install bin/batsh.pl as a command (with its .bat wrapper on Win32).
The clause is guarded by -d 'bin' and is inert for a distribution
that ships no bin/ directory.
- New regression tests: t/0030-expansion-literals.t (16 checks, eight
of them fail on 0.08), t/0031-set-positional.t (11 checks) and
t/0032-glob-paths.t (16 checks).
- QA: t/9040-style.t now calls the checker's style group K over
lib/*.pm -- K1 (a comma must be followed by whitespace or by a
closing bracket), K2 (use [ @array ] rather than \@array) and K3
(use { %hash } rather than \%hash). The group has shipped in
t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm for several releases but no test file
called it, so it had never run against BATsh. With group K wired
in, the suite runs 1888 tests.
K1 needed thirteen lines respaced. None of them changes what the
code does:
lib/BATsh.pm 482-486 the @frame_keys list, rewrapped
lib/BATsh/CMD.pm 411 421 428 434 435
open(STDIN,'<&...') and
open(STDOUT,'>&...') gain the space
lib/BATsh/Env.pm 56-59 68 the one-line accessors,
my ($c,$n)=@_ -> my ($c, $n) = @_
K2 and K3 already passed on every module.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.08 2026-07-23 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- NEW SH BUILTINS: let, type and command are now evaluated internally
in pure Perl. Previously all three fell through to the external
command path and were handed to whatever real shell happened to
exist -- which failed on systems without that shell and defeated
BATsh's "no external shell required" design.
* let EXPR [EXPR ...] -- arithmetic evaluation, reusing the same
evaluator as $(( )), so assignments and ++/-- write back to the
variable store. Exit status is 0 when the last expression is
non-zero and 1 when it is zero (the (( )) convention).
* type [-t|-p] NAME ... -- report how each NAME resolves, in bash's
precedence order: alias, keyword, function, builtin, then an
executable on PATH. -t prints the one-word kind; -p prints the
path of an external file.
* command [-v|-V] NAME [ARG ...] -- run NAME bypassing any shell
function of that name; -v prints how NAME would be invoked (the
portable `command -v foo >/dev/null` feature-detection idiom)
and -V prints a verbose, type-style description.
New regression test t/0027-let-type-command.t (22 checks).
- MORE SH BUILTINS / ATTRIBUTES (pure Perl):
* umask [-S] [MODE] -- print or set the file-creation mask; -S prints
the symbolic form. MODE may be octal (022) or symbolic
(u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx, with +/- operations). The shell keeps its own
copy of the mask so "umask MODE; umask" round-trips on every
platform (native Win32 Perl's umask() always reports 0), and pushes
a set value to the OS umask so it still affects file modes where
the OS honours it.
* hash [-r] [NAME ...] -- BATsh keeps no location cache, so the
maintenance forms are successful no-ops; "hash NAME" verifies NAME
is on PATH. (Previously umask and hash fell through to an external
shell and produced "Can't exec" errors.)
* readonly [-p] [NAME[=VALUE] ...] -- mark a variable read-only; a
later assignment or unset is refused with a non-zero status. The
readonly attribute is enforced at every assignment path (VAR=val,
prefix VAR=val cmd, export, declare) and is script-scoped (reset
between top-level runs).
* mapfile / readarray [-t] [-d DELIM] [-n COUNT] [-O ORIGIN]
[-s SKIP] [ARRAY] -- read lines of standard input into an indexed
array (default MAPFILE).
- declare -i / -r: the integer attribute now evaluates a variable's
right-hand side as arithmetic ("declare -i n=3+4" stores 7, and the
attribute sticks so a later "n=2*5" stores 10); -r marks the variable
read-only. Previously "declare -i" stored its initialiser literally.
A quoted initialiser containing spaces now works too, e.g.
declare -i s="1 + 2" (the scalar value is parsed quote-aware).
New regression test t/0029-sh-attrs-mapfile.t (22 checks).
- printf REWRITTEN (SH mode): the builtin is now a faithful pure-Perl
implementation. Previously it understood only \n and \t, split
quoted arguments on whitespace (losing "a b" style operands), did not
recycle the format, and leaked Perl "Redundant argument" / "isn't
numeric" warnings to STDERR. It now supports:
* format recycling -- the format is reused until the arguments are
exhausted, so printf '%s\n' a b c prints three lines;
* the full conversion set %d %i %o %u %x %X %e %E %f %g %G
%c %s %b %q %%, with flags, field width and precision, and the
dynamic %*d width/precision form;
* %b (backslash escapes interpreted in the argument, with \c ending
output) and %q (shell-reusable quoting);
* the complete C/POSIX escape set in the format string
(\\ \a \b \f \n \r \t \v \e \NNN octal \xHH hex);
* -v VAR to store the result in a shell variable instead of
printing;
* quiet, bash-like handling of a non-numeric numeric argument
(treated as 0, no STDERR noise).
New regression test t/0028-sh-printf.t (21 checks).
- FIX (SH external commands): a command that could not be launched
(system() returned -1) now reports exit status 127 ("command not
found"), as bash does. The previous ($rc >> 8) arithmetic on -1
produced a nonsensical huge status.
- DOC FIX (README): "getopts" was still listed under "does not
implement" although it has been a supported builtin since 0.07. The
stale entry is removed and getopts is listed with the other 0.07
builtins.
- QA / TESTS: this release also hardens the distribution's own
self-checks against two blind spots.
- t/9020-perl5compat.t now scans the whole distribution rather than
only lib/*.pm. It walks lib/, t/, bin/ and eg/ with File::Find
(core since Perl 5.000) and applies the Perl 5.005_03 compatibility
checks (3-argument open, lexical file and directory handles,
our/say/state, defined-or, and so on) to every .pm, .pl and .t
file. Previously only four lib modules were examined, so a
Perl 5.6+ construct in a test, script or example could slip past.
The scanner excludes itself -- it necessarily contains the very
constructs it detects -- and ignores matches that occur only in
comments.
- t/9061-readme-refs.t (new): checks that every in-distribution file
the README refers to (eg/, doc/, bin/, lib/ and t/ paths) actually
exists on disk. This is the reverse of the existing MANIFEST-driven
README check and guards against a documented-but-absent example.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.07 2026-07-21 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- SECURITY / SH REDIRECTIONS: fixed two defects in the pure-Perl SH
interpreter's I/O redirection target handling (both present through
0.06; the CMD interpreter was unaffected -- it already dequoted its
redirection targets).
(1) Quoting. A quoted redirection target kept its quote characters
and was split on whitespace inside the quotes, so
echo hi > "out.txt" wrote to a file named "out.txt"
(quotes included), not out.txt
echo hi > "a b.txt" broke at the space
Redirection targets are now read with quote/backslash awareness
(new internal _read_redir_word) and dequoted with the same
_arr_dequote() the command words already use, so a quoted space
stays part of the one filename and the quotes are removed.
(2) Command injection. Redirection targets reached a 2-argument
open() unprotected, so a target that ended in "|" was run as a
pipe and one that began with ">" was re-parsed as a mode:
f="date|"; cat < $f ran `date` (a pipe), not open a file
... > ">name" appended to "name" (leading > lost)
Every plain-filename redirection open() (stdin/stdout/stderr in
the exec-redirect path, the while-loop input redirect, subshell
"( ... ) >file / <file", and the general _sh_exec_with_redirs
path) now uses sysopen() with explicit O_RDONLY / O_WRONLY |
O_CREAT | (O_APPEND|O_TRUNC) flags. sysopen() takes the name
literally, so a leading ">"/"<" or a trailing "|" is never
treated as a mode or a pipe command. The file-descriptor
duplication forms (2>&1, 1>&2, >&STDERR) are unchanged.
Fcntl (already a dependency) supplies the extra O_* constants
(O_RDONLY, O_TRUNC, O_APPEND added to the existing import).
New test t/0024-sh-redirect-quoting.t (7 checks: quoted output /
input / append targets, a quoted target containing a space, and the
two injection cases). All Perl 5.005_03 compatible (index/substr
scanning, sysopen with Fcntl O_* flags, no prototypes, no 3-arg
open, no lexical filehandles).
- SH SUBSHELL REDIRECTIONS: a trailing redirection on a subshell,
"( ... ) > file" / ">> file" / "< file", extracted its target with a
bare \S+ match, so a quoted target with a space broke and quotes were
kept. It now runs through the same quote-aware redirection parser as
every other command, so "( ... ) > \"a b.txt\"" and "( ... ) > \$var"
behave correctly; the target reaches the same sysopen() and so cannot
be mis-parsed as a pipe/mode either. (t/0024 RQ08, RQ09.)
- SH ASSIGNMENT VALUES: a variable assignment dequoted its value by
stripping only a single OUTERMOST "..." or '...' pair, which left
concatenated quotes intact and split a backslash-escaped space:
y=a'b'c stored a'b'c (now abc)
w=a\ b ran "b" as a command (now the value is "a b")
Both the standalone form (VAR=value) and the prefix form
(VAR=value command) now dequote with the same _arr_dequote() used for
command words, and the prefix-assignment value reader honours "\ " so
an escaped space no longer ends the value word. New test
t/0025-sh-assign-quoting.t (6 checks). Perl 5.005_03 compatible.
- SH PROCESS SUBSTITUTION path quoting: now that redirection targets
(and, as before, command words) are dequoted, the temp-file path that
<(cmd) / >(cmd) substitutes into the line is emitted quoted, so it is
taken literally. Without this, a Windows temp path
(C:\...\Temp\batsh_ps_NN.tmp) lost its backslashes to backslash-escape
processing, and a space in the temp directory split the word; on
Unix (/tmp/...) the bug was invisible. Also fixes process
substitution used as a command argument (diff <(a) <(b)) when the temp
directory contains spaces.
- SH `cd` QUOTING: the cd builtin now dequotes its argument like every
other command word, so cd "a b", cd 'dir', and cd "$VAR/x" reach
chdir() as a plain path. Previously the quote characters were kept
and cd failed with "No such file or directory". (t/0026 CD01-CD03.)
- SH SUBSHELL REDIRECT FAILURE: a subshell whose redirection cannot be
opened, e.g. "( read L ) < /no/such/file", now reports the error and
returns a non-zero status WITHOUT running its body. Previously it
fell through and ran the body against the inherited stdin, which
blocks forever when the body reads stdin (cat, read). Any handle
already redirected is restored before returning. (t/0026 RF01; RF02
guards that a working redirect still reads the file.) New test
t/0026-sh-cd-and-redir-fail.t (5 checks). Perl 5.005_03 compatible.
- NEW SH BUILTIN getopts: the POSIX single-character option parser,
the last remaining builtin previously listed as unimplemented.
getopts optstring name [arg ...]
Called in a loop, it sets the variable named by "name" to each
option letter in turn (and OPTARG to an option's argument), tracks
progress through the argument list in OPTIND (1-based, reset to 1
by the script before an independent parse), and returns non-zero
when the options are exhausted so a "while getopts ...; do ...;
done" loop ends by itself. Supports: a ':' after a letter in the
optstring to mark an argument-taking option; the separate
(-o value) and attached (-ovalue) option-argument forms; clustered
flags (-abc == -a -b -c); the "--" end-of-options marker (consumed)
and a leading non-option word (stops parsing, left in place);
parsing the positional parameters when no explicit args are given;
and both error-reporting modes -- the default (a diagnostic to
STDERR and name='?') and the silent mode selected by a leading ':'
in the optstring (no message; name='?' for an unknown option or
':' for a missing argument, with the offending letter in OPTARG).
The intra-argument character offset used for clustered options is
internal state that is restarted whenever the script resets OPTIND,
matching bash's behaviour for a fresh getopts loop; it is also
reset between top-level runs so one script's half-finished loop
cannot leak into the next. All Perl 5.005_03 compatible
(index/substr scanning, no prototypes, package-variable state).
New test t/0023-sh-getopts.t (23 checks).
- Fixed SH "shift N": the builtin accepted an optional count in its
implementation (shift 1..9 positions) but the dispatcher called it
with no argument, so "shift 3" and "shift $((OPTIND-1))" always
shifted by exactly one -- silently corrupting any script that
shifted more than one positional parameter at a time, including the
idiomatic "shift $((OPTIND - 1))" that follows a getopts loop. The
dispatcher now passes the count through. (t/0023: GO16/GO17.)
- Fixed inline single-line function bodies that contain a control
structure. A body such as
loop() { for x in a b c; do echo "$x"; done; }
count() { i=0; while [ $i -lt 3 ]; do echo $i; i=$((i+1)); done; }
chk() { if [ "$1" = yes ]; then echo Y; else echo N; fi; }
was split naively on ';' at definition time, tearing the loop or
conditional into fragments ("while C" / "do B" / "done") that no
longer reassembled into a runnable block -- the construct silently
produced no output, or ran "done"/"fi" as an external command.
_parse_function() now detects a control-structure keyword in
command position in an inline body (new helper
_inline_body_has_control(), quote/substitution aware) and, when
present, keeps the whole body as one line so _run_lines() applies
the same inline-control handling it already uses for a control
structure typed directly on one physical line (including the
"prefix; control" split, so "setup; while ...; do ...; done"
works). A trailing ';' before the closing brace is dropped so the
inline "; done"/"; fi"/"; esac" terminator sits where the block
parsers expect it. Bodies of only simple commands
(greet() { echo hi; echo bye; }) still split on ';' exactly as
before. All Perl 5.005_03 compatible. (t/0023: GO14/GO15 exercise
getopts inside such a function; the fix is general to all inline
function bodies.)
- Fixed the SH "$*" special parameter, which was never expanded and
printed literally: the expansion pass substituted "$@" but not
"$*", despite the code comment naming both. "$*" now expands to
the space-joined positional parameters, like "$@". This is the
parameter a script reads after "shift $((OPTIND - 1))" to see the
operands left by a getopts loop. (t/0023: GO19.)
- Fixed the SH "echo" builtin's glob decision, which inspected the
raw source text for *, ?, or [ with a plain pattern match. That
match also fired on the '*' of the "$*" parameter, on the '?' of
"$?", and on any metacharacter inside quotes -- so
echo " x: $*" was needlessly run through word-splitting/globbing,
collapsing its leading and internal whitespace, and a quoted
echo "*.txt" risked being globbed against the current directory.
A new quote- and parameter-aware scanner (_raw_has_glob) triggers
globbing only on a genuine unquoted glob metacharacter that was
actually written in the script, skipping quoted regions, $NAME /
$* / $? parameter references, and ${...} expansions. Unquoted
"echo *.txt" still globs as before. (t/0023: GO20/GO21.)
- Extended shell features: extglob, brace expansion, here-strings,
process substitution, select, alias/unalias, exec, and subshell
command groups (v0.07).
* shopt -s/-u extglob enables ?(),*(),+(),@(),!() pattern-list
operators in case patterns and in the ${VAR%pat}-family
parameter-expansion patterns (_extglob_scan/_extglob_split_alts,
shared by _case_glob_to_re() and _glob_to_re()). Fixed two
existing case-pattern parsers (_case_split_patterns and
_case_parse_clause) to be paren-depth-aware so an extglob
group's internal '|' and ')' are not mistaken for the
pattern-separator '|' or the clause-terminator ')'.
* {a,b,c} and {1..5}/{a..e}[..step] brace expansion runs
lexically on the raw line (_brace_expand_line and friends),
protecting quotes, ${...}, $(...), $((...)), `...`, and
<(...)/>(...) as opaque regions; wired into _exec_line and
_expand_word_list (for-loop lists).
* cmd <<< word here-strings (_sh_strip_herestring), reusing the
here-document temp-file machinery. Fixed a pre-existing
_hd_detect() bug where "<<<" was only rejected as a
here-document opener when matched starting at its FIRST '<';
the scan then re-tried from the second '<' and matched "<<"
there, silently mistreating "cmd <<< word" as a broken
here-document. _hd_detect() now skips all three characters.
* <(cmd) and >(cmd) process substitution
(_replace_process_subst/_procsub_capture/_procsub_tempfile).
<(cmd) is captured eagerly into a kept temp file, like $(cmd)
without the final read-back; >(cmd) defers cmd until after the
current simple command finishes. _exec_line was split into
_exec_line_impl plus a thin _exec_line wrapper that drains
per-nesting-level process-substitution bookkeeping. Fixed
_split_sh_compound() and _split_sh_pipe(), which both split a
line on ';'/'&&'/'||'/'|' BEFORE expansion and only tracked
$(...) nesting: a ';' or '|' inside a <(...)/>(...) body (e.g.
">(read LINE; echo $LINE)") was mistaken for the OUTER line's
separator, corrupting the command. Both now also track <(/>(
nesting the same way they already tracked $(.
* select VAR in LIST; do ... done (_parse_select): numbered
menu to STDERR, $PS3 prompt, REPLY/VAR from STDIN.
* alias/unalias builtins (_cmd_alias/_cmd_unalias) and
first-word alias expansion (_alias_expand_line) at the top of
_exec_line, with a chain-length guard against self-reference.
* exec (_cmd_exec): "exec > file" (etc.) applies redirections
permanently to the current shell; "exec cmd" runs cmd and then
ends the script with cmd's status, approximating process
replacement (this interpreter never forks).
* ( cmd1; cmd2 ) subshell command groups (_parse_subshell):
variable, array, function, and alias changes, and cd, are
isolated via snapshot/restore of BATsh::Env, %_SH_ARRAY,
%_SH_ARRAY_TYPE, %_SH_FUNCTIONS, %_SH_ALIAS, and Cwd::cwd()
around the body; a trailing >, >>, or < on the closing ")" is
honoured.
All Perl 5.005_03 compatible (2-argument open()/opendir() with
bareword filehandles throughout; sysopen(O_CREAT|O_EXCL) for every
new temp-file class, matching the existing here-document /
command-substitution / pipeline-stage helpers). New test
t/0021-sh-extended-features.t (24 tests); all previously existing
tests continue to pass unmodified.
- Security hardening: command-substitution capture files and SH
pipeline stage files are now created with the same symlink-race-
resistant sysopen(O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) discipline already used by
_bg_tempfile() (background-job pidfiles) and _hd_tempfile()
(here-documents). Previously _cmd_subst() ($( ... ) / `...` output
capture) and _exec_sh_pipe() (per-stage stdout->stdin bridge files)
opened a predictable path in the shared temp directory with a plain
open(FH, "> $path"), which (a) relied on umask for the file mode
(typically world-readable, 0644) and (b) followed a pre-existing
symlink at that path instead of refusing to open it. Both code
paths are exercised by nearly every non-trivial script (any $(...),
backtick, or | pipeline), so the exposure was broad on shared
multi-user hosts. New helpers BATsh::SH::_subst_tempfile() and
BATsh::SH::_shp_tempfile() mirror the existing _bg_tempfile() /
_hd_tempfile() retry-on-EEXIST pattern (sequence-numbered names,
1000 attempts, 0600 mode); the file is opened once by the helper
and reused (no separate create-then-reopen step), removing the
brief window in the old code between creation and use. Stray files
from an abnormal exit are still tracked for END-time failsafe
cleanup, as for the existing temp-file classes. No externally
visible behaviour change; all 890 existing tests pass unmodified.
Perl 5.005_03 compatible (same sysopen/Fcntl usage as the existing
helpers; no new dependencies). New test t/0019-tempfile-security.t.
- Tilde expansion ~/path, ~user/path (v0.07). POSIX word-initial,
unquoted tilde expansion is now performed on the RAW source line
inside BATsh::SH::_expand() -- via a new _tilde_prepass() pass
that runs BEFORE $VAR / $(...) / `...` substitution -- so that a
literal ~ typed in the script is expanded exactly once, while a
$VAR that merely happens to hold a string starting with "~" is
never re-expanded (matching bash: only the source word is
eligible, not values produced by substitution). Covers cd, word-
split command arguments (echo, eval, external commands), test/[
file-test operands, and the right-hand side of NAME=value
assignments (both the pure "NAME=value" form and the prefix
"NAME=value command" form, including the extra tilde-eligible
position right after the assignment '=', as in VAR=~/sub).
~user resolves via getpwnam and is a documented no-op on Win32,
where the word is left literal (same as bash's behaviour for an
unresolvable login name). NOT implemented: tilde expansion after
':' in colon-list assignments (PATH=~/a:~/b); documented as a
limitation. New test t/0020-tilde-expansion.t (11 tests).
- Script exit-code propagation and $? <-> %ERRORLEVEL% bridge.
run() / run_string() / run_lines() now RETURN the script's final
exit status: "exit 3" gives 3, "EXIT /B 5" gives 5, otherwise the
status of the last command. The modulino exits with that code
(exit(BATsh->main(@ARGV))), so OS-level %ERRORLEVEL% / $? of
"perl lib/BATsh.pm script.batsh" is the script's own status.
At every CMD<->SH section boundary the status is mirrored both
ways, so a failing SH command is visible as %ERRORLEVEL% in the
next CMD section and vice versa. New public accessor
BATsh->last_status. New sub main() handles --help, --version,
-e 'source', and "-" (read script from STDIN, remaining arguments
become %1../$1..). EXIT with no code keeps the current
ERRORLEVEL. "exit N" now also ends the REPL. NEW FILE
bin/batsh.pl (EXE_FILES); installed as "batsh".
- $(( )) arithmetic rewritten as a recursive-descent parser.
Now supported: comparison and logical operators (result 0/1),
assignment operators = += -= *= /= %= <<= >>= &= ^= |= (written
back to the variable store), prefix/postfix ++ and --, the
ternary ?: and comma operators, ** (right-associative), bitwise
& ^ | ~ << >> (~ is signed: -v-1), hex 0x.. and octal 0..
literals, and C-style truncation toward zero for / and %
(-7/2 = -3, -7%2 = -1). Errors warn and yield 0. Fixed a
here-document false positive on $((1<<4)) ("<<" inside $(( ))
is no longer taken as a heredoc opener).
- SH shell options set -e / -u / -x (and set -o errexit /
nounset / xtrace; +e/+u/+x to turn off; options combinable as
in "set -eux"). set -e stops the script with the failing
command's status; if/while/until conditions and non-final
members of && / || lists are exempt. set -u makes expansion of
an unset variable an error (warning + exit status 1;
${VAR:-default} is exempt). set -x traces each simple command
to STDERR with a "+ " prefix. Options are reset at the start
of each top-level run so "set -e" cannot leak into a later
run() in the same process. Limitations are documented in POD:
-x traces the raw pre-expansion line (expanding a copy would
run $(...) twice), and -u stops after the current command
completes with the empty expansion.
- NEW SH BUILTIN eval: one level of quote removal, concatenation,
and re-execution with a second round of expansion (POSIX
semantics). Previously "eval" fell through to external-command
execution and only worked by accident where /bin/sh handled it.
- New tests: t/0016-exit-status.t, t/0017-sh-arith.t,
t/0018-sh-set-options.t.
- Fixed t/0016-exit-status.t (ES12-ES14) on real Windows: the
child-process helpers used a single quoted shell string for
system(), which cmd.exe re-wraps in an extra pair of double
quotes and mis-parses ("filename, directory name, or volume
label syntax is incorrect"). Rewritten to use LIST-form
system() (bypasses the shell entirely) with STDIN/STDOUT
redirected at the Perl level via dup/reopen instead of a
shell "<"/">" string. lib/BATsh.pm itself was unaffected; this
was a test-harness-only bug. Re-verified on Linux (16/16).
Desk review of the Win32-specific code paths (no Windows host
available in this environment): BATsh::SH::_bg_launch_decoded()
uses system(1, $cmdline) (P_NOWAIT) to background a job on
Win32; the success/failure check (defined $pid && $pid > 0)
matches the documented Win32 system(1, ...) contract (PID on
success, 0 on failure). t/0016's _run_child() LIST-form
system($^X, "-I$lib", $pm, $prog, @args) calls CreateProcess
directly and does not re-enter cmd.exe, so the original
quote-re-wrapping failure mode cannot recur. _bg_tempfile()'s
temp-directory selection already accounts for %TEMP%/%TMP% and
backslash path separators. No logic defects found in review;
confirmation on an actual Windows host (locale, path-length,
%TEMP% permission variables that cannot be reviewed statically)
remains pending.
- CP932 (Shift_JIS) multibyte-safe execution: NEW MODULE BATsh::MB.
A .batsh script written in CP932 -- the encoding of Japanese
Windows -- now runs correctly even when its characters contain
trail bytes that collide with ASCII shell metacharacters (the
classic "dame-moji" / 0x5C problem). Affected characters are
extremely common: SO (0x835C), HYOU (0x955C), NOH (0x945C) end
in a backslash; PO (0x837C) in a pipe; CHI (0x8360) in a
backtick; DA (0x835E) in the cmd.exe caret escape; and many
trail bytes fall in a-z/A-Z where uc()/lc() corrupt them.
Design: instead of teaching every byte-oriented scanner in
BATsh::CMD / BATsh::SH about lead and trail bytes, the script
text passes through a reversible GUARD TRANSFORM on input. Each
two-byte character LEAD+TRAIL whose TRAIL is in the dangerous
ASCII range 0x40-0x7E is rewritten to the three-byte form
\x01 LEAD (TRAIL+0x80), which contains no ASCII bytes; a literal
\x01 becomes \x01\x01, making the transform bijective. All
existing parsing (caret escapes, pipelines, quotes, redirects,
globs, case patterns, uc/lc variable handling, SETLOCAL
snapshots, ...) is then automatically DBCS-safe with no scanner
changes. The inverse transform is applied at the output
boundaries only:
print sinks ECHO/echo/printf/SET display, prompts, _warn
exec sinks system() for external commands, background jobs,
FOR /F ('command') input pipes
file sinks redirect targets, CD/DIR/COPY/DEL/MOVE/MKDIR/
RMDIR/REN/TYPE paths, IF EXIST, test -e/-f/-d...,
glob patterns, here-document bodies, CALL/source
script filenames
env sink BATsh::Env::sync_to_env (raw bytes into %ENV)
and input re-entry points guard incoming raw bytes again:
SET /P and read line input, FOR /F file/command lines, $(...)
and `...` captured output, glob results, Cwd for %CD%/PWD.
- Encoding selection (BATsh::MB): 'auto' is the default -- a
non-UTF-8 source containing bytes >= 0x80 is detected as CP932
and the guard switches on (and then stays on for the process,
because Env may hold guarded values; only an explicit
set_encoding deactivates it). Pure-ASCII and well-formed UTF-8
sources need no guarding and are byte-for-byte unaffected, so
existing behaviour is preserved exactly. Explicit selection:
BATsh->run($file, encoding => 'cp932');
BATsh->run_string($src, encoding => 'sjis');
BATsh->set_encoding('cp932');
set BATSH_ENCODING=cp932 (environment variable)
perl lib/BATsh.pm --encoding=cp932 script.batsh
Supported: cp932/sjis, gbk/cp936, uhc/cp949, big5/cp950 (all
sharing the same trail-byte hazard), utf8, none, auto. A UTF-8
BOM on the first line is stripped.
- Character semantics for substring/length operators under the
guard: ${#VAR}, ${VAR:N:L}, ${VAR:N} (SH) and %VAR:~n,m% (CMD)
now count CP932 CHARACTERS, not bytes, via BATsh::MB::mb_length
/ mb_substr. Byte semantics are unchanged while the guard is
inactive (ASCII/UTF-8 operation identical to 0.06).
- Modulino command line (perl lib/BATsh.pm ...): new options
--encoding=ENC and --version; script arguments after the script
name are now passed through as %1..%9 / %* (previously they
were dropped).
- BATsh::Env::sync_to_env no longer copies the batch-parameter
pseudo keys (%0..%9, %*, %%V FOR variables) into %ENV; they are
not legal environment variable names and polluted the child
environment of external commands.
- t/0015-cp932.t: new regression suite (20 checks, US-ASCII
source with \xNN escapes) covering echo/ECHO of dame-moji,
%VAR% and Env-bridge round-trips, pipeline/backtick/caret
false-positive protection, uc() safety, character-based
${#VAR} / ${VAR:N:L} / %VAR:~n,m%, case patterns, redirects,
CP932 filenames (test -f, IF EXIST), FOR /F over a CP932 file,
${VAR^^}, IF string comparison, %ENV export, auto-detection,
UTF-8 pass-through, and enc/dec bijectivity.
- eg/13_cp932_demo.pl: runnable demonstration (US-ASCII source)
of a CP932 mixed CMD/SH script.
- t/9010-encoding.t: BATsh::MB added to the US-ASCII source
check list.
- Fixed a pre-existing echo bug: the SH "echo" builtin decided
whether to apply filename globbing by testing the already
variable-expanded $rest for * ? [ characters. This meant a
variable whose *value* happened to be a glob metacharacter
(e.g. getopts setting $opt to "?" on an unknown option, or ":"
on a missing argument) could be silently glob-matched against
the current directory and replaced by whatever single-character
filename happened to match, instead of being echoed literally.
The glob-or-not decision is now made from the raw, pre-expansion
source text instead, so only a glob metacharacter actually
written in the script (e.g. "echo *.txt") triggers globbing;
a variable's expanded value is never re-subject to globbing,
matching the same "expansion results are not re-expanded"
principle already used for tilde expansion. (t/0021:
EF25/EF26 regression tests.)
- Practical-level fixes to the pure-Perl SH and CMD interpreters
(bugs found by exercising real scripts; all covered by the new
t/0022-sh-compound-fixes.t regression suite, 16 checks):
* A simple-command prefix followed on the SAME physical line by
a control structure introduced with ';' now dispatches the
control structure through its block parser instead of handing
the pieces to /bin/sh -- e.g. x=""; if [ -z "$x" ]; then ...;
fi, i=0; while ...; done, v=cat; case ...; esac
(_run_lines/_find_control_split).
* Inline "if COND; then A; else B; fi" (and elif) now honours
the else/elif branch; the old single-line parser dropped it
(_parse_if via _inline_has_terminator/_inline_expand).
* Nested "if ... fi" is depth-aware so an inner fi no longer
closes the outer if, both multi-line and inline
(_parse_if body collector + _if_depth_delta).
* Escaped double quotes inside a double-quoted word are handled
per POSIX: echo "she said \"hi\"" -> she said "hi"
(_arr_dequote rewritten with backslash escaping).
* A for-loop / array list built from $(...) no longer leaks a
stray ")" token: for f in $(echo a b c); do ...; done, and
arr=($(echo x y z)) (_arr_split_words made substitution-aware).
* A trailing "# comment" is stripped from SH command lines when
the '#' begins a word and is unquoted, while $#, ${#var},
${var#pat}, an in-word '#' (a#b, http://h#frag) and quoted
'#' are left intact, and here-document bodies keep their '#'
(_strip_sh_comment, applied per physical line in _run_lines).
* A control structure used as a pipeline element or && / ||
operand now runs correctly: cmd | while read x; do ...; done,
cmd | for i in ...; do ...; done, true && for ...; done.
_split_sh_compound became control-structure-grouping aware so
a ';' / && / || inside a while/for/if/case/until/select block
is no longer treated as a top-level separator, and a single
compound command reaching _exec_line_impl as a pipe/operand is
routed through the block runner (_seg_is_control). (The
multi-line form with "do" on its own line after a pipe remains
a known limitation; the inline "; do" form is supported.)
* Single-line CMD "IF cond (body) ELSE (body)" (and IF EXIST /
IF DEFINED / negated forms) now parses both branches on one
physical line instead of echoing the raw ") ELSE (" text
(_parse_if_bodies via _match_paren).
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.06 2026-06-27 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- SH indexed and associative arrays (BATsh::SH). The single most useful
missing piece of bash-script compatibility is now implemented:
arr=(a b c) indexed array literal
arr+=(d e) append at the next index
arr[i]=v, arr[i]+=v element assignment / string append
declare -a arr declare an (empty) indexed array
declare -A map declare an associative array
typeset -a / -A accepted as an alias of declare
map[key]=value associative element assignment
map=([k1]=v1 [k2]=v2) associative (or sparse indexed) literal
${arr[i]}, ${map[key]} element access; $arr is short for ${arr[0]}
${arr[-1]} negative index counts back from the last element
${arr[@]}, ${arr[*]} all element values
${#arr[@]} number of set elements
${#arr[i]} length of one element's value
${!arr[@]} list of indices (indexed) or keys (associative)
unset arr, unset arr[i] remove whole array / single element
Indexed subscripts are evaluated arithmetically (so ${arr[$i]} and
${arr[i+1]} work) and indexed arrays may be sparse; associative
subscripts are literal strings. Array names are case-insensitive, like
scalar variables, and a name is either a scalar or an array, never both.
Element order for ${arr[@]} is ascending numeric index for indexed
arrays and sorted key order for associative arrays -- bash leaves the
associative order unspecified, so a deterministic order is used for
portable output. In a for list, "${arr[@]}" and "${!arr[@]}" word-split
to one item per element or key, so elements containing spaces survive.
Array operations are detected on the raw line before expansion so the
"(a b c)" literal and the "[sub]" subscripts are never mangled by
variable or command substitution. All Perl 5.005_03 compatible (no
prototypes; storage via plain package-level hashes).
- SH for-loop word list: the list of a "for VAR in LIST" header is now
variable- and command-substitution-expanded (previously the words were
taken literally), with quote-aware word splitting and filename globbing.
This fixes "for x in $LIST" and enables "for x in "${arr[@]}"".
- SH echo: quote removal is now structural (per word) rather than only
stripping one pair of surrounding quotes, so e.g.
echo "${arr[@]}" tail no longer prints the literal double quotes.
- t/0010-sh-arrays.t: new regression suite (26 checks) covering indexed
and associative arrays, append, sparse arrays, negative indexing,
arithmetic and variable subscripts, ${#arr[@]} / ${#arr[i]} / ${!arr[@]},
unset of whole arrays and single elements, declare/typeset -a/-A,
inline associative initialisers, and for-loop iteration over both
"${arr[@]}" and "${!arr[@]}".
- lib/BATsh.pm, lib/BATsh/SH.pm: POD updated to document array support and
to move arrays out of the "not implemented" list.
- CMD CALL :label argument passing and subroutine call frame
(BATsh.pm, BATsh::CMD). CALL :label arg1 arg2 ... now installs the
subroutine's own positional parameters -- %0 is the :label token,
%1..%9 are the call arguments, and %* is their join -- and the caller's
%0..%9 / %* frame is saved on entry and restored on return, so a
subroutine no longer clobbers the caller's parameters and a shorter call
no longer inherits the caller's stale arguments. Arguments are
%-expanded before the call and split with double-quote awareness, so
CALL :sub "a b" %FILE% passes "a b" as a single argument. The two CALL
code paths (the BATsh-level directive interceptor and BATsh::CMD's
_cmd_call) now both delegate to BATsh->call_sub, which performs the
save/install/restore, so they behave identically. The same arguments
are mirrored to BATSH_ARG1.. so an SH-mode subroutine body sees them as
$1..$9 / $@. Previously CALL set BATSH_ARG* but not %1..%9 (so %1 and
%~dp1 inside the subroutine saw the caller's arguments), set neither %0
nor %* for the callee, and never restored the caller's frame.
- CMD %~N path modifiers on CALL arguments: because %1..%9 are now
populated by CALL, the tilde modifiers %~f1 %~d1 %~p1 %~n1 %~x1 (and
combinations such as %~dp1, %~nx1) operate on a subroutine's passed
path arguments, not just on %0.
- CMD SHIFT / SHIFT /N is now an actual dispatched builtin (BATsh::CMD).
It was documented but unimplemented, so SHIFT inside a subroutine fell
through to an external command ("Can't exec SHIFT"). SHIFT now moves
%2 into %1, %3 into %2, ..., clears %9, rebuilds %*, and keeps the
BATSH_ARG* mirror in step; SHIFT /N begins the shift at %N.
- t/0011-cmd-call-args.t: new regression suite (14 checks) for CALL
argument passing (%1..%9, %*, %0 = label), caller-frame save/restore,
quoted and %-expanded arguments, %~nx1 / %~n1 / %~x1 / %~dp1 on passed
arguments, SHIFT and SHIFT /N, nested CALL frames, SH-mode subroutine
bodies seeing $1..$9, and non-inheritance of unused parameters.
- lib/BATsh.pm, lib/BATsh/CMD.pm: POD documents the CALL argument frame,
%~N modifiers on passed arguments, and SHIFT / SHIFT /N.
- CMD subroutine-internal GOTO labels (BATsh.pm). A subroutine body may
now contain its own :labels as GOTO targets -- loops, forward skips,
or an early GOTO :EOF return -- so idioms such as a SHIFT loop that
sums a variable-length argument list work inside a CALL'd subroutine.
_extract_subroutines() previously used only a "label ... RET" heuristic
that mis-split such a subroutine: an internal label appearing before
the RET demoted the real entry label, so CALL :SUB reported "undefined
subroutine" and only the last internal label was registered. The
extractor now (a) treats any label named by a "CALL :LABEL" anywhere in
the script as a subroutine entry point (unioned with the existing RET
heuristic for backward compatibility), and (b) opens a subroutine only
at the top level: once inside a body, every :label is an internal label
that travels with the body and only RET/RETURN closes it. Internal
labels are resolved by the CMD interpreter when the body runs.
- CALL is no longer intercepted in _exec_cmd_section; it is handled by the
CMD interpreter's _cmd_call (which already delegates to call_sub /
source_file). The old interception flushed and split the CMD batch at
each CALL, so a GOTO whose loop body contained a CALL landed in a
different exec_block than its label and failed with "label not found".
Keeping CALL inside the batch lets each CMD section -- and each
subroutine body -- run as one block with a complete label index, so
GOTO across a CALL now resolves (in main code and in subroutines
alike). The now-unused BATsh::_split_call_args helper was removed.
- t/0012-cmd-sub-labels.t: new regression suite (7 checks) for internal
GOTO loops with SHIFT, subroutine reuse, internal forward GOTO skips,
coexistence of top-level GOTO labels with internal-label subroutines,
multiple subroutines each with their own internal labels, early
GOTO :EOF return from a subroutine, and nested CALL where both the
caller and callee subroutines use internal labels.
- eg/09_cmd_subroutines.batsh: the SHIFT demonstration now uses the
idiomatic internal GOTO loop (:SUMARGS_LOOP / :SUMARGS_DONE) to sum a
variable-length argument list.
- SH case..esac pattern branching (BATsh::SH). _parse_case() and
_match_pattern() were rewritten to parse clauses structurally rather
than line by line, adding:
* the bash fall-through terminators ;& (run the next clause's body
unconditionally) and ;;& (keep testing the remaining patterns),
alongside the normal ;;;
* character-class patterns [abc], ranges [a-z], and negation
[!abc] / [^abc], in addition to the existing * and ? globs;
* quoted and backslash-escaped patterns that match literally (e.g.
"*") matches a literal asterisk);
* a fully-inline construct on one physical line
(case $x in a) echo a ;; *) echo b ;; esac);
* an optional leading "(" before the pattern list ((pattern)).
Multiple |-separated patterns and the default *) clause already worked
and remain supported; clause and pattern splitting is now quote- and
[class]-aware so a | or ) inside quotes or a [...] class is not a
delimiter. The closing esac is recognised only at a clause boundary,
so the word "esac" appearing inside a body no longer ends the construct
prematurely. break / continue / return / exit inside a clause body
stop the case and propagate as before. All Perl 5.005_03 compatible
(hand-rolled scanners; no regex features beyond \A \z and character
classes).
- t/0013-sh-case.t: new regression suite (17 checks) for |-patterns, the
*) default, glob and [class] patterns including negation and ranges,
quoted/literal patterns, ;& and ;;& fall-through, fully-inline and
multi-line forms, leading-paren clauses, empty bodies, first-match
semantics, and esac-inside-a-body.
- SH trap / signal handling (BATsh::SH, BATsh.pm): a minimal trap built-in
bridged to Perl's %SIG.
trap 'commands' SIGSPEC... register a handler
trap - SIGSPEC... reset to the default action
trap '' SIGSPEC... ignore the signal
trap / trap -p list the current traps
A SIGSPEC is a signal name with or without a leading SIG (INT, SIGINT),
a number (2), or the EXIT pseudo-signal (also 0). Real signals are
bridged to %SIG: trap 'cmd' INT installs a %SIG{INT} handler that runs
cmd, trap '' INT sets IGNORE, and trap - INT restores DEFAULT. The EXIT
trap runs internally when the script finishes or when exit is called
(exactly once), wired in via BATsh.pm's run / run_string / run_lines and
BATsh::SH::fire_exit_trap(), plus _cmd_exit(). The handler command is
captured on the raw line (a new interceptor in _exec_line, before
expansion) and expanded only when it fires, so trap 'rm -f $tmp' EXIT
removes the file named by $tmp as it stood at exit. EXIT/ERR/DEBUG/
RETURN are treated as pseudo-signals and never touch %SIG (only EXIT
runs a handler today); %SIG assignment is eval-guarded so signal names
unsupported by the host (common on Windows) degrade quietly. trap was
previously listed as unimplemented. Assigning a handler for a signal
the platform lacks (e.g. HUP/USR1/USR2 on Windows) no longer prints a
"No such signal" warning: _sh_set_os_sig() filters just that warning
while the best-effort assignment still succeeds.
- t/0014-sh-trap.t: new regression suite (14 checks) for the EXIT trap on
normal end, on exit, with deferred expansion, cancellation, and
single-fire; %SIG handler install / IGNORE / DEFAULT / clearing;
handler execution and real signal delivery (kill); trap listing;
multiple signals per command; SIG-prefix and numeric normalization.
- eg/12_cmd_vs_sh.batsh: new teaching example that writes the same nine
tasks twice -- once in cmd.exe (CMD) style and once in bash/sh (SH)
style -- as a side-by-side parallel-translation reference for students:
printing, variables, arithmetic, an if/else string test, a counted
loop, a list loop, a subroutine/function, a multi-way branch (CMD
IF-chain vs SH case), and the shared variable bridge between the two
modes. A quick CMD-vs-SH syntax table heads the file; output lines are
labelled CMD:/SH: so the two notations line up.
- doc/ cheat sheets (all 21 languages): added three new sections covering
the 0.06 SH features -- "15. SH Arrays", "16. SH case Statements", and
"17. SH trap and Signals" -- with the same language-independent code
examples in every file and consecutive section numbering preserved
(t/9080 still passes). Inline comments and prose are fully localized
for EN and JA, and additionally for ZH, KO, FR, ID, VI and TR; the
remaining 12 languages (BM BN HI KM MN MY NE SI TL TW UR UZ) carry the
translated section headings with the comment text left in English as a
draft pending native-speaker review.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.05 2026-06-14 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- SH single-line loops: "for VAR in LIST; do BODY; done" and
"while/until COND; do BODY; done" written entirely on one physical
line are now executed correctly. Previously _parse_for() captured the
whole inline tail (BODY; done) into the iteration list and collected
no body, so the loop produced no output and -- because the body
collector then consumed the rest of the script looking for a "done"
that never arrived as its own line -- it re-ran the remainder of the
file once per whitespace token in the list; the single-line while
form died with a shell "do unexpected" / "Can't exec done" error.
_parse_for() and _parse_while() now detect an inline ";do" (matched
with \b after "do" so a "; done" terminator is never taken for the
"do" keyword), split the header from the inline body, and recognise
an inline "; done" terminator (greedy, so the LAST "; done" closes the
loop and a body that legitimately contains the word "done" or a nested
single-line loop is handled). The inline while form also honours a
redirect on the closing done, e.g. "while read L; do ...; done < FILE".
Multi-line loops are byte-for-byte unaffected. All forms are Perl
5.005_03 compatible (no regex features beyond \A \z \b and /s). This
makes the single-line "for i in 1 2 3; do ... done" shown in the
doc/*.txt cheat-sheet MIXED-MODE SAMPLE run as documented.
- t/0002-sh-interpreter.t: added regression tests for the inline
single-line for/while/until forms, nested single-line loops, a body
that contains the literal word "done", inline filename globbing, and
an inline while-read with a redirect on the closing done.
- Section splitter: BATsh::_sh_depth_delta() now computes the NET block
depth change for an ENTIRE SH line instead of inspecting only the first
token. A single-line "for ...; do ...; done" (or while/until/case)
counted the leading "for" (+1) but never the inline "done" (-1), so the
SH section was left open; the FOLLOWING CMD line was then absorbed into
the SH section and executed by the SH interpreter, where "%VAR%" is not
expanded -- e.g. the cheat-sheet sample's "ECHO Back in CMD: %result%"
printed "%result%" literally instead of bridging the SH-side value. The
new scanner counts opener (if for while until case function select, "{")
and closer (fi done esac, "}") keywords only in command position and
skips quoted text, $( ) substitutions and backticks, so an inline loop
nets to zero and the section boundary is detected correctly. Pure
Perl 5.005_03 (substr-based scan, no regex features). Multi-line input
is unaffected (the fast path returns the previous single-token result).
- Section splitter: a CMD-style comment (":: ..." or "REM ...") that
follows an SH section is no longer handed to the SH interpreter
verbatim. _process_lines() routed every comment line into the current
section unchanged; because the SH interpreter treats only "#" as a
comment, a ":: ..."/"REM ..." line was dispatched to the external shell,
and any "( )", "|" or other metacharacter in the comment then made
/bin/sh fail with 'Syntax error: "(" unexpected'. Comment (and empty)
lines are now routed into a section as a BLANK line, which both
interpreters skip identically at every nesting depth and which also
avoids the real cmd.exe quirk of "::" inside a "( )" block.
- t/0004-bridge.t: added regression tests proving (a) a single-line
for/while does not leave the SH section open so a following CMD
"%VAR%" still bridges, and (b) a ":: ..."/"REM ..." comment containing
shell metacharacters after an SH section is not dispatched to the
shell (STDERR is captured and checked for no shell syntax error).
- CMD variable substring/substitution modifiers: %VAR:~n,m% and
%VAR:str1=str2% in-place substitution are now supported in
BATsh::Env::expand_cmd() via a new _expand_var_modifier() helper.
Substring forms: %VAR:~n% (from offset), %VAR:~n,m% (n+m chars),
%VAR:~-n% (last n chars), %VAR:~n,-m% (all but last m chars).
Substitution forms: %VAR:str1=str2% (replace first, case-insensitive),
%VAR:*str1=str2% (replace from start through first str1).
All forms are processed before the plain %VAR% pass and are
Perl 5.005_03 compatible (substr, index, no regex features).
- CMD dynamic pseudo-variables: %DATE%, %TIME%, %CD%, %RANDOM%,
%ERRORLEVEL%, and %CMDCMDLINE% are now resolved at expansion time
by a new _expand_named_var() dispatcher inside expand_cmd().
%DATE% returns YYYY-MM-DD, %TIME% returns HH:MM:SS.cc, %CD% is the
current working directory, %RANDOM% is a pseudo-random integer 0-32767,
%ERRORLEVEL% reads the current value from BATsh::CMD via the new
public accessor BATsh::CMD::_get_errorlevel(), and %CMDCMDLINE%
returns an empty string (not meaningful in pure-Perl mode).
- SH filename globbing: unquoted words that contain *, ?, or [...]
metacharacters are now expanded to matching pathnames using Perl's
built-in glob(). Expansion occurs in BATsh::SH::_parse_args() (for
echo and external-command arguments) and in BATsh::SH::_parse_for()
(for the word list of for VAR in GLOB; do ... done). Single-quoted
and double-quoted patterns are NOT expanded (POSIX behaviour).
If no file matches the pattern, the literal pattern is returned
unchanged (nullglob-off behaviour, which is the shell default).
Two new helpers are added to BATsh::SH: _glob_expand() (expand one
word) and _glob_expand_args() (convenience wrapper over a list).
- t/0009-new-vars.t: new test file, 25 tests (NV01-NV25) covering
all three feature areas above. Added to MANIFEST.
- POD updated: BATsh.pm BUGS AND LIMITATIONS now records that
%VAR:~n,m% / %VAR:str1=str2% and all dynamic pseudo-variables are
supported; the SH filename-globbing limitation item is removed.
BATsh::Env Variable Expansion section documents all new forms.
BATsh::SH Supported Features table lists glob expansion.
- Version bumped to 0.05 in lib/BATsh.pm, lib/BATsh/CMD.pm,
lib/BATsh/SH.pm, lib/BATsh/Env.pm, Makefile.PL, META.yml,
META.json, and README.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.04 2026-06-07 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- Inline-Perl portability: every shelled-out Perl one-liner in the
distribution is rewritten into a form that satisfies BOTH external
shells that BATsh dispatches to -- cmd.exe (system STRING on Win32)
and /bin/sh -c (system STRING on Unix/BSD). The previous forms hit
two distinct, OS-specific foot-guns:
(A) Unix: a dollar token inside the code (e.g. "$_") was expanded
by /bin/sh from the environment variable "_" (the last-arg /
path that the shell exports), which is unpredictable on CPAN
smokers and produced random failures such as
"Bareword found where operator expected ... 1EERDtQcrK".
(B) Win32: cmd.exe does not honour single quotes, so a one-liner
wrapped in '...' was split on whitespace and Perl died with
"Can't find string terminator".
The portable form uses DOUBLE quotes and no shell-expandable dollar
token, e.g. perl -e "..." -> perl -ne "print uc" (the default
variable is consumed implicitly by uc, so nothing leaks to the
shell). Rewritten in: lib/BATsh.pm POD, lib/BATsh/SH.pm POD, README,
all 21 doc/batsh_cheatsheet.*.txt files, eg/05_cmd_comprehensive.batsh,
eg/06_sh_comprehensive.batsh, and t/0006-new-features.t. The stderr
sample in eg/06_sh_comprehensive.batsh is likewise switched from a
single-quoted body to a double-quoted "print STDERR qq(...)" form.
- t/0007-extcmd-env.t: new regression test that locks in the
portability fix above. EE01/EE02 run the pipeline and here-document
patterns under several hostile values of the environment variable
"_" and confirm correct uppercase output (this passes on every OS
and actively defeats vector (A) on Unix). EE03 is the clean-
environment baseline. EE04 is a static guard against vector (B):
no inline "perl -e/-ne/-pe" anywhere in t/ eg/ doc/ lib/ README may
be wrapped in single quotes. EE05 is a static guard against vector
(A): no double-quoted inline Perl may contain a shell-expandable
dollar token ($name, $_, ${...}, $1..$9); the harmless numeric $$
is exempt. Both static guards run on any OS, so a Windows run still
catches a Unix-introduced regression and vice versa. Added to
MANIFEST.
- External-Perl PATH portability (vector C): the test suite and the
eg/ examples shell out to a bareword "perl", but a CPAN smoker
frequently does NOT have the perl under test on PATH as "perl"
(perlbrew/plenv, or perl invoked by absolute path). The bareword
then resolves to nothing ("perl: not found", empty output), which
failed t/0007 EE01/EE02 and t/0006 NF23/NF60 and -- worse -- let
t/0006 NF07/NF21/NF22 report a corrupted, empty-named "ok" when the
failed pipe disturbed the captured-STDOUT save/restore; in eg/06 it
also hung (an empty "perl" command substitution fed a
"while read ... < $EMPTY" redirect whose read fell back to terminal
STDIN and blocked). Fixed WITHOUT touching the command strings or
the examples (a bareword "perl" is the correct thing for an end
user to type, and embedding an absolute $^X path would expose a
Win32 backslash path to SH-mode quote/escape processing): each
affected test now prepends the directory of the running interpreter
($^X) to PATH so the bareword "perl" resolves to the very perl now
running the suite. The prepend is installed before the first
BATsh::Env::init() (init() snapshots %ENV into STORE and
sync_to_env() copies STORE back to %ENV before each external
command). Touched: t/0006-new-features.t, t/0007-extcmd-env.t,
t/9070-examples.t (the last for the eg/ child process). Verified on
Linux with perl deliberately removed from the child PATH (and under
a hostile "_"): all 606 tests pass, no failures, no hangs; the
command strings and all eg/*.batsh examples are byte-for-byte
unchanged.
- t/0006-new-features.t: the END block now sets "$? = 1 if $fail"
instead of calling "exit 1", matching the INA_CPAN_Check.pm END-block
convention adopted in 0.03 (an END block must not call exit, so that
the harness sees the real plan/ok reconciliation).
- Documentation: the "self-contained" qualifier is removed from
lib/BATsh.pm (header comment, module description, the run() banner,
and the NAME / DESCRIPTION POD) and from README. BATsh dispatches
external commands to a real shell, so describing the interpreter
itself as "self-contained" was misleading; "bilingual shell
interpreter written in pure Perl" is retained and accurate.
- SH nested command substitution fixed (lib/BATsh/SH.pm). $( ... )
has been advertised as supporting full nesting since 0.02, but a
nested $( ... $( ... ) ) -- especially with a pipeline at each
level -- collapsed to an empty string, and on Unix a nested
pipeline could hang; the failure mode also differed between Windows
and Unix. Three independent defects were responsible:
(1) _cmd_subst() named its stdout-capture temp file with the
process id alone (batsh_cap_$$.tmp). An inner $(...) reused
the same path and unlink()'d it, so the outer level captured
nothing. The capture file is now tagged with the active
substitution-nesting depth.
(2) _split_sh_pipe() counted the "(" of a "$(" twice, leaving the
$( nesting depth stuck at 1 after a nested $(...); a bare "|"
that followed it was then not recognised as a pipe. "$(" now
consumes both characters and bumps the depth exactly once.
(3) _exec_sh_pipe() named its per-stage temp files with the
process id alone (batsh_shp_$$) and left its dup STDOUT/STDIN
globs un-local()ised. A nested pipeline therefore clobbered
the outer pipeline's stage file and saved handles; the outer's
final segment found no input file and blocked on the real
STDIN (a hang on Unix). The stage files are now tagged with
the active pipeline-nesting depth and the handle globs are
local()ised. All fixes are Perl 5.005_03 compatible (use vars
package globals, bareword filehandles, 2-argument open). The
command strings and the externally-visible API are unchanged.
- t/0008-nested-subst.t: new regression test for the fix above. NS01/
NS02 prove the capture-file depth fix with pure builtins (no "perl"
on PATH required); NS03 is the single-level pipeline-in-$() baseline;
NS04/NS05 cover nested $() with a pipeline at each level (defects 2
and 3); NS06 checks that two sibling $() pipelines on one line do
not collide; NS07 covers an assignment from a nested pipeline
substitution and its reuse. Like t/0006/0007 it prepends the running
interpreter's directory to PATH so the bareword "perl" resolves on a
smoker. Added to MANIFEST.
- eg/05_cmd_comprehensive.batsh: the SET/IF demonstration variable was
renamed LANG -> GREETING. As LANG, the example exported LANG=BATsh
into %ENV, and the external "perl" it later spawns then emitted a
glibc "Setting locale failed ... LANG = BATsh" warning to STDERR on
Unix (harmless, and invisible during "make test" because
t/9070-examples.t captures and discards child STDERR, but visible
when the example is run by hand; Windows perl does not warn). The
rename keeps the example's behaviour identical and silences the
Unix-only noise.
- eg/00_hello.pl: normalised from a CRLF line ending to LF, matching
the rest of eg/ (the other examples are already LF). Perl tolerates
the trailing CR on Unix, so this is a cosmetic consistency fix.
- Version bumped to 0.04 in lib/BATsh.pm, lib/BATsh/CMD.pm,
lib/BATsh/SH.pm, lib/BATsh/Env.pm, Makefile.PL, META.yml and
META.json. BATsh::CMD and BATsh::Env carry no changes other than
the version; BATsh::SH changes are the version, the two POD
one-liner rewrites noted above, and the nested command-substitution
fix noted above.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.03 2026-06-06 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: emit exactly one TAP plan line per test
file. Each check_* helper previously called plan_tests() itself,
while the .t files also called plan_tests(count_*); this produced
multiple "1..N" lines in a single file. Under a real TAP harness
(prove / Test::Harness, as used by CPAN Testers) this raised
"More than one plan found in TAP output" and made the affected
files FAIL, even though every individual "ok" line passed when the
scripts were run by hand. Affected files: t/9010-encoding.t,
t/9030-distribution.t, t/9040-style.t. The plan_tests() call is
now removed from every check_* helper, leaving the .t file as the
sole owner of the plan line.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: count_A() now returns the actual number
of MANIFEST entries instead of a fixed 1, so that the plan
computed by t/9030-distribution.t matches the number of A1 checks
that check_A() emits.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: remove the mid-stream plan_skip() calls
from check_A() and check_C(); the MANIFEST-absent guard is handled
by the .t file and by count_C() before any plan line is printed.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: check_K() now honours the k3_exempt
option passed by t/9040-style.t. The argument was previously
discarded by "my ($root) = @_;", so the intended exemption of
accessor-style hash names (%env, %opts, %args) never took effect;
the K3 detector also did not capture the hash name. check_K() now
accepts "k3_exempt => REGEX", captures the returned hash name via
/return \%(\w*)/, and skips a "return \%name" only when the name
matches the supplied pattern. Behaviour is unchanged when
k3_exempt is not passed (every "return \%..." is still flagged),
so distributions that call check_K($root) without the option are
unaffected.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: add a regression guard for the two TAP
defect classes above. plan_tests() now refuses to emit a second
"1..N" line, and an end-of-run reconciliation reports
"planned X but ran Y" (setting a non-zero exit) when the emitted
plan does not match the number of ok()/not-ok() lines. Both
problems now FAIL immediately on a plain "perl t/foo.t", not only
under a real harness.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: add selfcheck_suite(), which runs t/*.t
(and xt/*.t) in a child Perl and verifies one plan line per file,
plan == number of ok/not-ok lines, and no failures.
- pmake.bat: at "pmake dist" time, after the existing source checks,
run INA_CPAN_Check::selfcheck_suite() as check3 and abort the
build if any test file fails the plan-sanity check (disable with
--no-check3). Bump $PMAKE_BAT_VERSION to 0.34.
- t/lib/INA_CPAN_Check.pm: pass \@files / \@pm_files (a reference)
instead of [ @files ] (an anonymous copy) to _find_pm_t() in
_scan_code(), check_D(), check_E(), and check_K(). The copy form
meant the collected file list never reached the caller, so E1
(no shebang in lib/*.pm) and K3 (return { %hash } form) silently
scanned zero files and always passed.
- Documentation: BATsh.pm BUGS AND LIMITATIONS corrected. It no longer
claims SH-mode background execution is unsupported (it is supported
for external commands; see above and BATsh::SH), and it now clarifies
that non-builtin commands (FINDSTR, SORT, etc.) are invoked as
external programs rather than "unsupported". README and BATsh.pm POD
additionally enumerate previously undocumented limitations: CMD
"%VAR:~n,m%" / "%VAR:str1=str2%" and dynamic "%RANDOM%/%DATE%/%TIME%/
%CD%" variables; SH arrays, filename globbing, "~" tilde expansion,
brace expansion, and the trap/getopts/select/alias/declare/eval/exec
builtins and set -e/-u/-x options; and the shared (no sub-shell)
"( ... )" grouping common to both modes.
- SH expansion: a backslash-escaped "\$", "\`" or "\\" inside double
quotes is now preserved literally and no longer triggers variable
or command substitution (e.g. "\$_" yields a literal "$_").
- SH read: the "read" built-in now returns a non-zero status at end of
input so that "while read VAR; do ...; done < FILE" terminates
instead of looping. Leading option flags such as "-r" are skipped
and are no longer treated as target variable names.
- SH assignment prefix: "VAR=value command args" (POSIX) now applies
the assignment and then runs the command (e.g. "IFS= read -r LINE",
"LC_ALL=C sort"); multiple prefixes are supported. A standalone
assignment whose value merely contains spaces or a "$(...)"
substitution (e.g. UPPER=$(echo "a b")) keeps the full value and is
no longer mistaken for a prefix.
- SH while/until: an input redirection on the "done" line
("while read L; do ...; done < FILE") now reopens STDIN from FILE for
the duration of the loop so the loop's "read" consumes the file.
- eg/06_sh_comprehensive.batsh: I/O-redirection section simplified to a
plain "while read" loop now that the loop terminates correctly.
- Tests: t/9070-examples.t now executes each eg/*.batsh in a child
process and guards against runaway output and "syntax error"
breakage (E4). t/9060-readme.t verifies the README advertises every
eg/ example by name (R5). README gains an EXAMPLES section.
- SH background execution: an unquoted trailing "&" starts an external
command asynchronously and returns immediately. On Win32 the job is
spawned via system(1, ...) (P_NOWAIT, PID returned); on Unix it is
started through /bin/sh without a Perl fork, capturing the job PID
via the shell's $! into a sysopen O_CREAT|O_EXCL temp file (Pure
Perl, 5.005_03). The new $! parameter expands to the most recent
background PID (empty before any job); $? is 0 on a successful
launch (the job's own exit status is not awaited). Built-ins,
functions, assignments and control words ignore the trailing "&"
and run in the foreground; "&&", ">&"/"2>&1", quoted and escaped
"\&" are not treated as background. No job control; CMD-mode "&"
remains a sequential separator (see BUGS AND LIMITATIONS).
- eg/05_cmd_comprehensive.batsh: the "IF ERRORLEVEL" diagnostic line
"ECHO ERRORLEVEL>=0: ELTEST=%ELTEST%" contained a bare ">", which
CMD mode correctly treats as output redirection (matching cmd.exe).
As written, the message was silently redirected to a file named
"=0:" instead of being printed, and that stray file was created in
the current directory each time the example ran (including under
"make test" via t/9070-examples.t). The ">" is now caret-escaped
("ECHO ERRORLEVEL ^>= 0: ELTEST=%ELTEST%"), so the line prints
as intended and no file is written.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.02 2026-04-28 JST (Japan Standard Time)
[Highlights]
- Full bash/sh interpreter implementation: if/for/while/until/case,
function definitions (name() { ... }), local variable scoping,
&& / || / ; compound commands, pipelines (|), I/O redirection
(> >> < 2> 2>> 2>&1), variable expansion (${var%pat}, ${var#pat},
${#var}, ${var^^}, ${var,,}, ${var:N:L}, ${var/p/r}, ${var//p/r}),
positional parameters $1..$9 / $@ / $* / $#, shift, read, source.
- cmd.exe pipeline (|) support via temporary file (Pure Perl, 5.005_03).
- I/O redirection: stdout overwrite (>), append (>>), stdin (<),
stderr (2>), stderr-to-stdout (2>&1), stdout-to-stderr (1>&2).
Supported in both CMD mode and SH mode.
- SH here-documents on STDIN: cmd <<DELIM ... DELIM, <<-DELIM (strip
leading tabs), and <<'DELIM' (literal, no expansion). Body is
materialised to a temp file created with sysopen O_CREAT|O_EXCL
(Pure Perl, 5.005_03) and fed through the existing "< file" path,
so both built-ins (read) and external commands see it on STDIN.
Top-level mode dispatch is here-document aware, so uppercase body
lines are not misrouted to CMD mode. Single here-document per line;
here-strings (<<<) and same-line pipeline/compound combos are not
supported (see BUGS AND LIMITATIONS).
- cmd.exe batch-parameter tilde modifiers: %~0, %~f1, %~dp0, %~nx1,
%~n0, %~x0, %~p1 etc. (f d p n x modifiers, combinable).
- SET /P VAR=Prompt interactive prompt input from STDIN.
- $0 normalised to absolute path via File::Spec on run().
[BATsh::Env]
- Variable names are now stored and looked up in uppercase, matching
cmd.exe's case-insensitive environment variable behaviour.
SET myvar=x followed by ECHO %MYVAR% now correctly outputs "x".
- Added $DELAYED_EXPANSION package variable (default 0).
- setlocal() now accepts an options string and parses
ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION / DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION.
The delayed-expansion flag is saved/restored with the variable store.
- expand_cmd() now expands !VAR! references when $DELAYED_EXPANSION is on.
[BATsh::CMD]
- Implemented ^ escape character:
^X -> literal X (protects & | < > etc.)
^^ -> literal ^
trailing ^ -> line continuation (joins next line)
- Implemented I/O redirection parsed before command dispatch:
>file stdout overwrite
>>file stdout append
2>file stderr overwrite
2>>file stderr append
<file stdin redirect
Redirects with ^> are correctly treated as escaped > (not a redirect).
fd-digit stripping limited to isolated '1' or '2' before '>' to avoid
consuming trailing digits of command arguments (e.g. "ECHO line1 >f").
- SETLOCAL now passes its option string to BATsh::Env::setlocal() so
ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION and DISABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION take effect.
- !VAR! delayed expansion: pre_expanded block bodies now call expand_cmd()
at runtime when delayed expansion is active, so SET inside an IF/FOR
block followed by ECHO !VAR! correctly reflects the updated value.
- IF block pre-expansion: %VAR% in parenthesised IF/ELSE bodies is now
expanded at parse time (matching cmd.exe semantics), so a SET inside the
block does not affect %VAR% references in the same block.
- FOR block pre-expansion: %VAR% in parenthesised FOR bodies is expanded
once before the first iteration (at FOR-line parse time) and cached;
the loop variable is substituted per-iteration via an internal placeholder.
- IF /I (case-insensitive comparison) is now parsed before plain == so
that "/I" is not consumed as part of the left-hand operand.
- IF EXIST now handles quoted paths that contain spaces.
- ECHO no longer resets ERRORLEVEL to 0 after printing.
- FOR /F fully implemented:
tokens=N,M-P select specific token columns
tokens=N* select token N and put the remainder in the next variable
delims=CHARS field delimiters (default space/tab)
skip=N skip the first N lines of the source
eol=C skip lines beginning with character C (default ;)
usebackq swap quoting: "file" reads a file, 'cmd' runs a command
Sources: bare filename, quoted filename, 'command' (backtick output),
and ("literal string").
- & (sequential), && (conditional-success), || (conditional-failure)
compound commands are now supported.
- SET VAR=value: variable name regex relaxed to accept any non-'=' prefix,
matching cmd.exe's permissive variable naming.
[BATsh::SH]
- Full bash/sh interpreter implemented as Pure Perl (no external shell).
- Control structures: if/then/elif/else/fi, for/do/done, while/do/done,
until/do/done, case/esac with glob-pattern matching.
- Function definitions: name() { ... } and function name { ... } syntax,
including inline single-line bodies. Functions receive positional
arguments $1..$9; caller's arguments are saved and restored on return.
- local variable scoping: local VAR=value saves the caller's value and
restores it when the function returns.
- Compound commands: cmd1 && cmd2, cmd1 || cmd2, cmd1 ; cmd2.
- Pipeline: cmd1 | cmd2 [| cmd3 ...] implemented via temporary files
(Perl 5.005_03 compatible bareword filehandles, no fork/exec).
- I/O redirection: > >> < 2> 2>> 2>&1 1>&2, parsed after variable
expansion so that filenames may contain variables.
- Variable expansion: $VAR, ${VAR}, $1..$9, $@, $*, $#, $?, $$, $0.
Parameter expansion forms: ${VAR:-default}, ${VAR:=default},
${VAR:+alt}, ${VAR%pat}, ${VAR%%pat}, ${VAR#pat}, ${VAR##pat},
${VAR/pat/rep}, ${VAR//pat/rep}, ${VAR^^}, ${VAR^}, ${VAR,,}, ${VAR,},
${VAR:N:L}, ${VAR:N}, ${#VAR}.
Glob patterns in %/%%/#/## support *, ?, and [abc] character classes.
- Arithmetic expansion: $(( expr )) with +, -, *, /, %, and positional
parameters $1..$9 inside the expression.
- Command substitution: $( cmd ) with full nesting/quoting support, and
backtick `cmd` form.
- shift [N]: shifts positional parameters left by N positions (default 1),
updating both %N and %* in BATsh::Env.
- read VAR: reads one line from STDIN, chomps it, stores in VAR.
- source / . file: executes an external file in the current SH context.
- Builtin commands: echo, printf, cd, pwd, exit, true, false, :, export,
unset, set (noop), test / [ ... ] with -f -d -e -r -w -x -s -z -n
and string (= == != < >) and integer (-eq -ne -lt -le -gt -ge) ops.
- _cmd_subst uses fixed bareword filehandles (_SUBST_SAVOUT etc.) to
avoid collision under Perl strict and recursive invocations.
- _sh_strip_redirects and _sh_exec_with_redirs added for I/O redirection.
- _replace_cmd_subst added: walks $( ) depth-tracking the nesting so that
$( cmd | perl -e "print uc" ) parses the closing ) correctly.
- _split_sh_compound and _exec_sh_compound added for && / || / ; handling.
- _split_sh_pipe and _exec_sh_pipe added for pipeline handling.
- $0 is set to the absolute path of the running script by BATsh::run().
[BATsh.pm]
- _exec_cmd_section no longer intercepts SETLOCAL/ENDLOCAL itself;
both are passed through to BATsh::CMD::_dispatch so the option string
(ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION etc.) is correctly forwarded.
- created by INABA Hitoshi
0.01 2026-04-26 JST (Japan Standard Time)
- Initial CPAN release.