Bug#747519: bibtool: "Symbol does not start with a letter" random errors with pipe
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Hello Vincent,
thanks for your report.
Please can you send a data file that produces the issue along with the command line used.
Otherwise, can you say whether the bug exists with version 2.55 ?
Best wishes,
Jerome
On 09/05/14 16:47, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: bibtool
> Version: 2.57+ds-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I randomly get errors like:
>
> ,
> _____^
> *** BibTool ERROR: (line 109 in <stdin>): Symbol does not start with a letter
>
> ,
> _____^
> *** BibTool ERROR: (line 380 in <stdin>): Symbol does not start with a letter
>
> ,
> _____^
> *** BibTool ERROR: (line 1236 in <stdin>): Symbol does not start with a letter
>
> or:
>
> ,
> _____^
> *** BibTool ERROR: (line 109 in <stdin>): Symbol does not start with a letter
>
> ,
> _____^
> *** BibTool ERROR: (line 380 in <stdin>): Symbol does not start with a letter
>
> (on the same files!) and sometimes no errors, while the input files
> haven't changed. BibTool seems to have problems with pipes.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages bibtool depends on:
> ii dpkg 1.17.9
> ii libc6 2.18-5
> ii libkpathsea6 2013.20130729.30972-2+b3
> ii tex-common 4.04
>
> bibtool recommends no packages.
>
> bibtool suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
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