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diff --git a/Src/subst.c b/Src/subst.c
index 8f5bd355e..96e0914eb 100644
--- a/Src/subst.c
+++ b/Src/subst.c
@@ -2259,9 +2259,31 @@ paramsubst(LinkList l, LinkNode n, char **str, int qt, int pf_flags,
break;
default:
- flagerr:
- zerr("error in flags");
- return NULL;
+ flagerr:
+ {
+ /*
+ * We're trying to output the string that failed to
+ * parse and the offset of the parse error within that.
+ *
+ * The string is *str. It hasn't been changed since
+ * entry to this function, I think, except that the
+ * first non-variable-declaration line in this function
+ * (currently the 238th line in this function)
+ * writes a NUL to the first place in *str, so we'll
+ * compensate by outputting the dollar sign manually.
+ */
+ char *str_copy_for_output = dupstring(*str + 1);
+
+ /*
+ * Convert to a 1-based offset, because the shell
+ * language is 1-based by default.
+ */
+ zlong offset = s - *str + 1;
+
+ untokenize(str_copy_for_output);
+ zerr("error in flags near position %z in '$%s'", offset, str_copy_for_output);
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
}
s++;