Tim München wrote: > Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]: > Machine: i686 > OS: linux-gnu > Compiler: gcc > Compilation > CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='i686' -DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' > -DCONF_MACHTYPE='i686-redhat-linux-gnu' -DCONF_VENDOR='redhat' > -DLOCALEDIR='/usr/share/locale' -DPACKAGE='bash' -DSHELL -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > -I. -I./include -I./lib -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g > -pipe -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=pentium4 > uname output: Linux grid-ui.physik.uni-wuppertal.de > 2.6.9-67.0.4.EL_SFS2.3_0smp #1 SMP Mon Jul 21 13:57:38 CEST 2008 i686 i686 > i386 GNU/Linux > Machine Type: i686-redhat-linux-gnu > > Bash Version: 3.2 > Patch Level: 0 > Release Status: release > > Description: > A script containing some commands including hashmarks inside a > backtick operator fails to run correctly. The hashmark(s) seem to be > interpreted in a way that treats the rest of the line as comment, causing the > closing backtick to be skipped, and finally resulting in a unexpected EOF > parse error.
This was fixed in bash-3.2 patch 1. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
