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Re: Bash-4 breaks $(<command>) syntax on FreeBSD
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Bash-4 breaks $(<command>) syntax on FreeBSD |
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Date: |
Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:17:45 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) |
Gerard wrote:
> I just installed Bash-4 via the FreeBSD ports system. The installation
> went fine. However, all of my Bash scripts that use the $(<command>)
> syntax now fail with this error message:
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> syntax error near unexpected ')'
This isn't useful at all without an example I can use to reproduce the
problem.
Have you applied the bash-4.0 patches? Several deal with command
substitution parsing.
Chet
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