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Re: bash tries to parse comsub in quoted PE pattern

From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: bash tries to parse comsub in quoted PE pattern
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:58:27 -0400
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On 10/13/23 12:08 PM, Emanuele Torre wrote:

In a PE pattern, if the pattern has a single quoted part that contains
  $(  and does not contain a closing parenthesis, and has  \'  at the
end, bash will try to parse a command substitution and fail.


This is brace expansion. It looks like I'll have to teach it more shell
syntax.

Chet

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