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Re: Why is command substitution happening?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Why is command substitution happening? |
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Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:01:37 +0200 |
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Bill Gradwohl <bill@ycc.com> writes:
> Running it recently produced :
> bash: command substitution: line 2201: syntax error near unexpected
> token `('
> bash: command substitution: line 2201: `rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty
> "/snapshot/Music/Etta James/The Essential Etta James/The Essential Etta
> James (Disc 2)"'
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> I'm trying to understand why command substitution is happening at all,
> since the opening paren isn't preceded by a dollar sign.
The paren is a red herring, you need to get rid of the backquote.
(Use find instead of tree.)
Andreas.
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