Re: Should nested case statements within command substitutions work on in bash 3.2.x?

[Jon Seymour]

Thanks for reply and the workaround.

jon.

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson
<chris@cfajohnson.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015, Jon Seymour wrote:
>
>> I was surprised that this didn't work with the OSX version of bash 3.2:
>>
>>     /bin/bash -c 'echo $(case "yes" in yes) echo yes; ;; no) echo no; ;;
>> esac)'
>>
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `;;'
>> /bin/bash: -c: line 0: `echo $(case "yes" in yes) echo yes; ;; no)
>> echo no; ;; esac)'
>>
>> It does work with bash 4.x.
>>
>> Is this a known issue with 3.2 or is it particular to the OSX
>> implementation (which in my case is 3.2.53(1))?
>
>
>   Balance the parentheses:
>
>
> echo $(case "yes" in (yes) echo yes; ;; (no) echo no; ;; esac)
>
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> Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>