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: > > 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 -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/