Re: Why is command substitution happening?

[Bill Gradwohl]

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On 04/12/2011 08:03 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> Not good.  You're piping filenames into bash and letting bash parse them
> as commands.  
Not exactly. I'm passing in commands containing file names.

>If a filename contains something like $(...) or `...` then
> yes, bash would perform a command substitution.
> 
> Just do this instead:
> 
>   find . -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

That find would process directories at the top of the hierarchy first. I
need to process the hierarchy in the reverse order, so this simple find
won't work unless I run it as many times as there is depth to the hierarchy.

BTW - Is there a better place to ask these questions about bash? I doubt
this is a bug so asking here is probably inappropriate, but I don't know
where else to ask.

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Bill Gradwohl
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