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shell: accept >&2, lex every redirect operator in one function - #47829
bun exec 'echo hi >&2' and Bun.$`echo hi >&2` fail with Redirection with no file. 1>&2 works. The same error hits >&1, <&0, 1>&1, 2>&2, 0<&0 and >& 2.
The bare > arm of Lexer::lex (src/shell_parser/parse.rs:2769) called eat_simple_redirect, which never looked for &m. The & became a background token and 2 a word. Only the digit arm's eat_redirect knew about &m, and only for 1>&2 and 2>&1.
Fix
One function, Lexer::eat_redirect_operator, lexes the rest of every redirect operator: [n]>[>][&m] and [n]<[<][&m]. The digit, > and < arms call it. >&2 yields the same STDERR|DUPLICATE_OUT token as 1>&2, so the parser, the AST and the runtime are unchanged.
n>&n is a no-op and yields no token. A form the runtime cannot run (3>, 10>, >&3, 1>&0, 2>>&1, >&file, >&2foo) is a lexer error that names the form and the supported ones. A duplication takes no file, so Parser::parse_redirect leaves the words after it as arguments: echo >&2 msg prints msg on stderr. Before, echo 1>&2 msg created an empty file msg.
A digit is an fd number only at the start of a word, so abc3>out writes abc3 and file2>&1 prints file2. fd 0 is only read and fd 1 and 2 are only written: 0>f, 1<f and 2<f are errors that name the direction (before, 1<f appended to f).
Verified: test/js/bun/shell/lex.test.ts (27 token cases) and bunshell.test.ts (44 runtime cases, fd duplication shorthand). Bun 1.4.3 fails 50 of them. All of test/js/bun/shell/ passes with the debug build.
Self-reviewed: 20 concerns raised, 6 addressed, 4 not taken (Notes).
Background
The lexer turns a script into tokens. A redirect is one Token::Redirect(RedirectFlags) followed by the file word, if the form takes one. RedirectFlags is a bitset of STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, APPEND and DUPLICATE_OUT.
With DUPLICATE_OUT, the other flag names the fd that is copied: 1>&2 is STDERR (stdout := stderr) and 2>&1 is STDOUT (stderr := stdout). The runtime (states/Cmd.rs:690, Builtin.rs:741) reads it that way. The doc comment said the opposite. It is corrected.
Considered an &m peek in the bare > arm only. It leaves two fd tables for one operator, and because eat_redirect still backtracked for every pair other than (1,2) and (2,1), echo hi 1>&1 would print hi 1 and rm -rf build 3>&1 would run rm -rf build 3. One shared function removes the split where it happens.
2>>&1 ran before (as 2>&1). It is now a parse error, as in bash and dash. 3> file, 3>&1 and 12>out wrote the digits as a word before. They are now a parse error that names the form. 0>f redirected stdin before and 1<f appended to f. Both are now an error that names the direction. echo 1>&2 msg wrote both streams to the file msg before. msg is now an argument.
Binary size: release builds of the merge base and the first push of this branch, size build/release/bun: .text 140,304,358 to 140,305,638 bytes (+1,280). .data and .bss are equal. The file grows by one page (+4,096). The error strings and the shared function are the growth. bloaty, perf and valgrind are not installed here, so there is no per-symbol or per-instruction number.
Tokens for echo hi >&2: 9 (Redirect, Ampersand, Text) to 6 (one Redirect). echo hi >&1: 9 to 5. 1>&2 and abc3>out: unchanged. A bare > or < not followed by & pays one extra byte peek. A word-initial digit pays the same snapshot and backtrack as before. No allocation or syscall is added on any path that parsed before.
Notes
Forms and results (Bun 1.4.3 before, this branch after, bash 5.2):
script
bash
before
after
echo hi >&2
hi on stderr
Redirection with no file
hi on stderr
echo hi >& 2
hi on stderr
same error
hi on stderr
echo hi >&1, 1>&1, 2>&2, <&0, 0<&0
hi
same error
hi
echo $(echo hi 2>&1), echo `echo hi 2>&1`
hi
hi
hi
echo hi 3>&1
hi
same error
`3>`: Bun Shell only redirects file descriptors 0, 1 and 2
echo hi 10>&1
hi
hi 10
`10>`: Bun Shell only redirects file descriptors 0, 1 and 2
echo hi >&3, >&12
Bad file descriptor
same error
`>&3`: Bun Shell only duplicates stdout and stderr onto each other
echo hi 2>>&1
syntax error
hi
`2>>&`: a file descriptor cannot be appended to
echo hi >&2foo
ambiguous redirect
same error
`>&2`: the file descriptor number must end the word
echo hi >&out
writes hi to out
same error
`>&` must be followed by a file descriptor number
echo abc3>out
abc3 in out
same
same
echo file2>&1
file2
file on stdout, stderr to stdout
file2
echo z 1<f
Bad file descriptor
appends z to f
`1<`: file descriptor 1 is written, not read
echo hi 0>f
hi, empty f
No such file or directory
`0>`: file descriptor 0 is read, not written
echo hi 0< f
reads f
STDIN with APPEND
STDIN
echo >&2 msg, echo 1>&2 msg
msg on stderr
empty file msg (>&2: parse error)
msg on stderr
echo hi 0>&0, 1<&1
hi
parse error
hi
Why the digit arm has a word-start gate. Digits are in SPECIAL_CHARS_TABLE, so the digit arm fires in the middle of a word. Before, eat_redirect returned None for a digit above 2 and the lexer backtracked. Now a digit run above 2 before > or < is an error, so the arm has to know whether it is at the start of a word. word_is_open is the list that break_word already used to decide whether a Delimit is due. A tab does not end a word in this lexer, so a digit after a tab is still an fd number (cmd<TAB>2>f). A digit run that is not followed by > or <, or that is an fd in the wrong direction, is backtracked and lexed as a word, as before.
Where the fd number ends. The target of >& ends at the end of input, whitespace, an escaped newline, or one of ; | & ( ) < > and a backtick. A closing ) or backtick ends a command substitution, so $(echo hi 2>&1) keeps its old token stream.
0< f and 0<< f. The old < tail of eat_redirect did not eat its own <, so eat_simple_redirect_operator saw it as the doubling and set APPEND. 0<< f left a stray <. The shared function eats the operator itself.
Error shape. Lexer errors go through Lexer::add_error. add_error_fmt writes a format_args! into a Vec<u8> first, the same way the numeric JS ref error does. This runs only on the error path.
Self-review. Addressed: (1) an early break in Parser::parse_redirect left the Delimit after 2>&1 unread, so $(echo hi 2>&1) failed to parse. The parser now eats that Delimit and parse_simple_cmd reads the words after a duplication as arguments (a94a1c8). (2) 10>&1 printed hi 10: the digit arm now reads the whole digit run. (3) >&12 named >&1 in its error: the target is read the same way. (4) 1<f went from append to truncation: fd 1 and 2 before <, and fd 0 before >, are now a named error (e943f10, after a review pass on the bash semantics). (5) 2>&1 before an escaped newline or a closing backtick was an error. (6) The msg command exists on Windows: the test used a different name, and that test is now gone with the parser hunk. Not taken: the review asked to land #44532 first and rebase this PR on it. A maintainer decides the order. The two shared hunks are identical, so the rebase is mechanical either way. It asked to reject << here: #44532 and #43922 do that. It noted >&"2" works in bash: out of scope. It noted the TestBuilder.error() check passes when nothing throws: the error rows here read the message directly.
Test runs with the debug build: test/js/bun/shell/ 1111 pass, 2 fail. shell-load.test.ts fails on main too in this container (Too many open files, ulimit 1024). exec.test.ts > it works2 passes alone, with and without this change.
no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts
The bare `>` and `<` arms of the lexer never looked for a following
`&m`, so `echo hi >&2` lexed as a redirect, a background `&` and the
word `2`, and the parser reported "Redirection with no file". Only the
digit arm knew about `&m`, and only for `1>&2` and `2>&1`.
One function now lexes the rest of every redirect operator:
`eat_redirect_operator`. It takes the fd that came before the operator,
if any, eats the optional second `>` or `<`, and then the optional
`&m` target. `>&2` produces the same token as `1>&2`. `n>&n` is a
no-op and produces no token. A form the runtime cannot run (`3>`,
`>&3`, `1>&0`, `2>>&1`, `>&file`, `>&2foo`) is a lexer error that
names the form.
A digit is an fd number only at the start of a word, so `abc3>out`
writes `abc3` and `file2>&1` prints `file2`. The parser no longer
reads a word after `1>&2` as its file.
…git as an fd only in its direction
The early break in Parser::parse_redirect left the Delimit after a
`2>&1` unread, so `$(echo hi 2>&1)` failed to parse. The parser is
back to what main has.
The digit arm now reads the whole digit run, so `10>&1` and `12>out`
reach the error for file descriptors above 2 instead of lexing as the
word `10` or `12`. The target of `>&` is read the same way, so the
error for `>&12` names `12`.
fd 0 is only read and fd 1 and 2 are only written. In `0>f`, `1<f` and
`2<f` the digit is a word, as in bash. Before, `1<f` appended to `f`.
An escaped newline and a closing backtick end the fd number.
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Walkthrough
The shell lexer now parses supported file-descriptor redirects, including >&2, and treats self-duplication as a no-op. It reports errors for unsupported forms. Tests cover lexer and runtime behavior, and the documentation describes the supported syntax.
Changes
File-descriptor redirection
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Parse and classify descriptor redirects src/shell_parser/parse.rs, src/runtime/shell/Builtin.rs
The lexer parses descriptor redirects through a shared parser and distinguishes redirect, no-op, and unsupported outcomes. It records errors for invalid forms. The command parser continues reading arguments after a duplication redirect without a file target.
Verify and document redirect syntax test/js/bun/shell/lex.test.ts, test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts, docs/runtime/shell.mdx
Lexer and runtime tests cover supported syntax, word boundaries, no-op forms, and parse errors. The documentation describes supported descriptors and self-duplication.
Possibly related issues
oven-sh/bun#47822: This PR adds support for >&2 and descriptor duplication between standard descriptors, and reports errors for unsupported forms.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/bun#47827: Changes how lexer and parser failures, including unsupported redirect errors, surface in JavaScript and the CLI.
Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, alii
Severity of issue fixed: Medium
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 41213
The supported shorthand reuses existing redirect behavior. The buffer concerns are pre-existing runtime limitations, not established regressions from this change; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.
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Issue #47822 requires support for >&2 and reports failures for descriptor duplication forms. src/shell_parser/parse.rs now routes digit, > and < redirects through eat_redirect_operator. The …
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The parser changes implement descriptor-duplication lexing for issue #47822. The parser, documentation, lexer tests, and runtime tests directly support redirect behavior and error handling. The `Built…
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Issue #47822 requires support for >&2 and reports failures for descriptor duplication forms. src/shell_parser/parse.rs now routes digit, > and < redirects through eat_redirect_operator. The lexer supports the requested >&2 form and emits explicit errors for unsupported descriptors and malformed duplication forms. Parser::parse_redirect leaves words after a duplication redirect as command arguments. The added lexer and shell tests cover token and runtime behavior.
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Keep tabs out of command names, or document the tab behavior.
The new lexer path keeps the tab in the command-name Text for echo<TAB>2>out. Command lookup then uses the name byte for byte, so the command is reported as not found. The base revision lexes this input to the same Text, so this PR does not introduce the defect. It only shows the tab is still in the word.
Suggested direction
Unquoted tabs do not end words in the main lexer loop. A fix that treats an unescaped tab in Normal state like a space (break_word(AddDelimiter::AfterWord)) would change every tab-separated word. That needs its own change and test updates, including test/js/bun/shell/lex.test.ts around lines 507-509.
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Review comment at @src/shell_parser/parse.rs around lines 2726 - 2730:
Document the existing behavior in the shell parsing or command-name
documentation: unquoted tabs remain in a word’s Text and are included in the
command name used for lookup. Do not change the Normal-state word-boundary
behavior in the lexer around word_is_open or ShellCharIter as part of this fix,
since that would affect tab-separated words.
…n the fd error
The direction rule (fd 0 reads, fd 1 and 2 write) applies to a file
redirect. A duplication onto the same fd is a no-op in either direction,
as in bash.
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the .expect("write to Vec") in the new add_error_fmt (src/shell_parser/parse.rs:3214) against the no-panics-on-user-input rule — it is an in-memory fmt::Arguments write into a Vec<u8>, which cannot fail, and matches the existing expect("infallible: in-memory write") sites in the same file (lines 3418-3437). The dropped eat_redirect/eat_simple_redirect/lt/gt helpers have no remaining callers.
Extended reasoning...
The change replaces the Bun Shell lexer's fd-redirect handling in src/shell_parser/parse.rs with one shared eat_redirect_operator, adds parse errors for unsupported fds, and updates lex and runtime tests plus docs; Builtin.rs loses only a comment. It touches no auth, crypto or network surface, but it is a parser over user-supplied script text where token-stream changes alter which file gets truncated or where output goes. Three verified behavioral findings are posted inline, so approval is not appropriate; this note only records what else was examined and ruled out.
Findings marked 🟡 are optional suggestions and need no follow-up push.
… file
`echo >&2 msg` printed nothing and created an empty file `msg`, because
Parser::parse_redirect read the word after a duplication as its file. A
duplication takes no file. The words after it are now arguments of the
same command, as in bash.
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the removed RedirectFlags::lt/lt_lt/gt/gt_gt constructors have no remaining callers in src/, and that the points from my earlier passes (file word consumed after a duplication, JS object ref ending the fd number, "Please" wording in the new lexer messages) are reflected in the current parse.rs. Two inline findings remain for the author; a human look at the digit-arm backtrack semantics is still worthwhile since the hunt hit its finding cap.
Extended reasoning...
The change rewrites the Bun Shell lexer's redirect operator handling in src/shell_parser/parse.rs (new eat_redirect_operator, word_is_open, eat_digit_run, add_error_fmt) and adjusts parse_redirect/parse_simple_cmd so duplications take no file, with tests in lex.test.ts and bunshell.test.ts and a docs update; no auth, crypto or network surface is touched. Two verified findings are being posted inline (the silent 0>f/1<f/2<f word-plus-redirect behavior and a stderr-ordering-dependent buffer test), and the bug hunt stopped at its finding cap rather than running dry, so approval is not appropriate.
Before, the digit became an argument and the other stream was
redirected, silently. bash treats the digit as the fd, which the runtime
cannot model. A named error is the honest result.
The buffer test now has the child write to stderr only, so it does not
depend on which stream lands in the buffer last.
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I reviewed the latest pushes (through de1835d) and found no new bugs; because this rewrites the redirect lexer and turns previously-accepted forms (3> file, 10>&1, 0>f, 1<f, 2>>&1) into parse errors, a human look at those user-visible semantics is still worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
The two newest commits address the points from my earlier inline comments: 0>f, 1<f and 2<f now lex to a named error instead of leaking the digit into argv, and the 2>&1${buffer} test writes only to stderr so it no longer depends on pipe read order.
Traced eat_redirect_operator and the digit arm's word-start gate for >&2, >& 2, n>&n no-ops, abc3>out, file2>&1, cmd<TAB>2>out, $(... 2>&1), closing backtick, escaped newline and 2>&1${buf}; the token streams match the lex.test.ts table, and sublexer errors reach the parent via continue_from_sublexer.
Confirmed parse_redirect no longer takes a word after a DUPLICATE_OUT token and parse_cmd resumes argument parsing, so echo >&2 msg keeps msg as an argument; no remaining callers of the deleted lt/gt/eat_redirect helpers.
Worth weighing: package.json scripts run through this lexer on Windows, so the new parse errors for fd 3+ forms are reachable from bun run there, not only from Bun.$ and bun exec.
Extended reasoning...
The change replaces the Bun Shell lexer's two redirect paths (eat_redirect/eat_simple_redirect) in src/shell_parser/parse.rs with one eat_redirect_operator plus a word-start gate for leading digits, adjusts parse_cmd/parse_redirect so duplication tokens take no file, corrects a flag doc comment in Builtin.rs, updates docs/runtime/shell.mdx, and adds lexer and runtime test tables. It touches no auth, crypto or injection surface; it is a parser for user-authored shell scripts. The automated hunt ran dry with no new findings, all items raised in my four earlier reviews are addressed by the latest commits, and dead helpers have no remaining callers. Deferring rather than approving because the rewrite is 372 lines of lexer logic and deliberately changes user-visible behavior (several previously-lexed fd forms become parse errors, and the PR notes an ordering question with another open PR touching the same hunk), which is a product decision for a maintainer.
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Fixes #47822
Problem
bun exec 'echo hi >&2'andBun.$`echo hi >&2`fail withRedirection with no file.1>&2works. The same error hits>&1,<&0,1>&1,2>&2,0<&0and>& 2.>arm ofLexer::lex(src/shell_parser/parse.rs:2769) calledeat_simple_redirect, which never looked for&m. The&became a background token and2a word. Only the digit arm'seat_redirectknew about&m, and only for1>&2and2>&1.Fix
Lexer::eat_redirect_operator, lexes the rest of every redirect operator:[n]>[>][&m]and[n]<[<][&m]. The digit,>and<arms call it.>&2yields the sameSTDERR|DUPLICATE_OUTtoken as1>&2, so the parser, the AST and the runtime are unchanged.n>&nis a no-op and yields no token. A form the runtime cannot run (3>,10>,>&3,1>&0,2>>&1,>&file,>&2foo) is a lexer error that names the form and the supported ones. A duplication takes no file, soParser::parse_redirectleaves the words after it as arguments:echo >&2 msgprintsmsgon stderr. Before,echo 1>&2 msgcreated an empty filemsg.abc3>outwritesabc3andfile2>&1printsfile2. fd 0 is only read and fd 1 and 2 are only written:0>f,1<fand2<fare errors that name the direction (before,1<fappended tof).test/js/bun/shell/lex.test.ts(27 token cases) andbunshell.test.ts(44 runtime cases,fd duplication shorthand). Bun 1.4.3 fails 50 of them. All oftest/js/bun/shell/passes with the debug build.Background
Token::Redirect(RedirectFlags)followed by the file word, if the form takes one.RedirectFlagsis a bitset of STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR, APPEND and DUPLICATE_OUT.1>&2is STDERR (stdout := stderr) and2>&1is STDOUT (stderr := stdout). The runtime (states/Cmd.rs:690,Builtin.rs:741) reads it that way. The doc comment said the opposite. It is corrected.&mpeek in the bare>arm only. It leaves two fd tables for one operator, and becauseeat_redirectstill backtracked for every pair other than (1,2) and (2,1),echo hi 1>&1would printhi 1andrm -rf build 3>&1would runrm -rf build 3. One shared function removes the split where it happens.>or<, end the word after**, and reject<<#44532 adds. That PR makes0>fand1<fwords instead of errors, and changes the same digit arm. The one that lands second rebases that hunk. Words after a file redirect as arguments (> f echo hi) are shell: keep words after a redirection as arguments of the same command #34901. This PR takes only the duplication case, which has no file to confuse them with.Downsides
2>>&1ran before (as2>&1). It is now a parse error, as in bash and dash.3> file,3>&1and12>outwrote the digits as a word before. They are now a parse error that names the form.0>fredirected stdin before and1<fappended tof. Both are now an error that names the direction.echo 1>&2 msgwrote both streams to the filemsgbefore.msgis now an argument.size build/release/bun:.text140,304,358 to 140,305,638 bytes (+1,280)..dataand.bssare equal. The file grows by one page (+4,096). The error strings and the shared function are the growth.bloaty,perfandvalgrindare not installed here, so there is no per-symbol or per-instruction number.echo hi >&2: 9 (Redirect, Ampersand, Text) to 6 (one Redirect).echo hi >&1: 9 to 5.1>&2andabc3>out: unchanged. A bare>or<not followed by&pays one extra byte peek. A word-initial digit pays the same snapshot and backtrack as before. No allocation or syscall is added on any path that parsed before.Notes
Forms and results (Bun 1.4.3 before, this branch after, bash 5.2):
echo hi >&2hion stderrRedirection with no filehion stderrecho hi >& 2hion stderrhion stderrecho hi >&1,1>&1,2>&2,<&0,0<&0hihiecho $(echo hi 2>&1),echo `echo hi 2>&1`hihihiecho hi 3>&1hi`3>`: Bun Shell only redirects file descriptors 0, 1 and 2echo hi 10>&1hihi 10`10>`: Bun Shell only redirects file descriptors 0, 1 and 2echo hi >&3,>&12Bad file descriptor`>&3`: Bun Shell only duplicates stdout and stderr onto each otherecho hi 2>>&1hi`2>>&`: a file descriptor cannot be appended toecho hi >&2foo`>&2`: the file descriptor number must end the wordecho hi >&outhitoout`>&` must be followed by a file descriptor numberecho abc3>outabc3inoutecho file2>&1file2fileon stdout, stderr to stdoutfile2echo z 1<fBad file descriptorztof`1<`: file descriptor 1 is written, not readecho hi 0>fhi, emptyfNo such file or directory`0>`: file descriptor 0 is read, not writtenecho hi 0< ffecho >&2 msg,echo 1>&2 msgmsgon stderrmsg(>&2: parse error)msgon stderrecho hi 0>&0,1<&1hihiWhy the digit arm has a word-start gate. Digits are in
SPECIAL_CHARS_TABLE, so the digit arm fires in the middle of a word. Before,eat_redirectreturnedNonefor a digit above 2 and the lexer backtracked. Now a digit run above 2 before>or<is an error, so the arm has to know whether it is at the start of a word.word_is_openis the list thatbreak_wordalready used to decide whether aDelimitis due. A tab does not end a word in this lexer, so a digit after a tab is still an fd number (cmd<TAB>2>f). A digit run that is not followed by>or<, or that is an fd in the wrong direction, is backtracked and lexed as a word, as before.Where the fd number ends. The target of
>&ends at the end of input, whitespace, an escaped newline, or one of; | & ( ) < >and a backtick. A closing)or backtick ends a command substitution, so$(echo hi 2>&1)keeps its old token stream.0< fand0<< f. The old<tail ofeat_redirectdid not eat its own<, soeat_simple_redirect_operatorsaw it as the doubling and set APPEND.0<< fleft a stray<. The shared function eats the operator itself.Error shape. Lexer errors go through
Lexer::add_error.add_error_fmtwrites aformat_args!into aVec<u8>first, the same way the numeric JS ref error does. This runs only on the error path.Self-review. Addressed: (1) an early break in
Parser::parse_redirectleft theDelimitafter2>&1unread, so$(echo hi 2>&1)failed to parse. The parser now eats thatDelimitandparse_simple_cmdreads the words after a duplication as arguments (a94a1c8). (2)10>&1printedhi 10: the digit arm now reads the whole digit run. (3)>&12named>&1in its error: the target is read the same way. (4)1<fwent from append to truncation: fd 1 and 2 before<, and fd 0 before>, are now a named error (e943f10, after a review pass on the bash semantics). (5)2>&1before an escaped newline or a closing backtick was an error. (6) Themsgcommand exists on Windows: the test used a different name, and that test is now gone with the parser hunk. Not taken: the review asked to land #44532 first and rebase this PR on it. A maintainer decides the order. The two shared hunks are identical, so the rebase is mechanical either way. It asked to reject<<here: #44532 and #43922 do that. It noted>&"2"works in bash: out of scope. It noted theTestBuilder.error()check passes when nothing throws: the error rows here read the message directly.Test runs with the debug build:
test/js/bun/shell/1111 pass, 2 fail.shell-load.test.tsfails on main too in this container (Too many open files, ulimit 1024).exec.test.ts > it works2passes alone, with and without this change.no test proof · iteration 1 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/js/bun/shell/bunshell.test.ts