Re: Random parser error of $() when there is a case inside

[Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca]

Thanks Chet and Dennis,

Dennis, your workaround did work.

Regards,

Em sáb, 5 de dez de 2015 às 18:58, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> escreveu:

On 12/4/15 1:25 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:

> Bash Version: 4.2
> Patch Level: 53
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> While writing a script, I faced a random parser error with code like
>
> A=$(
> ...
> case b in
> c)
> ...
> esac
> ...
> )
>
> Minor changes like renaming a variable skips the problem. It seems that the
> parser gets confused in some cases.

This was fixed back in bash-4.3.

Chet
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