Interesting bug

[David Hobach]

Dear all,

I think I found a rather interesting bug:
```
#!/bin/bash

function badCode {
echo "bad code executed"
}

function testCode {
#pick some existing file, nonexisting works too though
echo "/etc/passwd"
}

function tfunc {
  local foo=
  foo="$(testCode)" || {echo "foo";}
  cat "$foo" || {
        badCode
        case $? in
         *)
           exit 1
        esac
}
}

echo "Finished."
```
(I also attached it.)

I guess 99% of programmers would either expect "Finished" to be printed or some syntax 
error. In fact however the `badCode` function is executed. "Finished" is never executed.
This is a nice one to hide bad code...

Output:
```
cat: '': No such file or directory
bad code executed
```

Affected bash versions:
Debian 11: GNU bash, version 5.1.4(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Fedora 32: GNU bash, version 5.0.17(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
(Probably more, these were the only two I tested.)

Happy bug hunting!

Best Regards
David

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