On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:17:45 -0400 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>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 Fair enough. I know that several users of FreeBSD are complaining all ready and have switched back to Bash-3.x. This is a short script, named "t.sh" that will produce the error message: #!/usr/bin/env bash if $(which gpg2); then printf "gpg2 located" fi This is the error message: ./t.sh: command substitution: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `)' ./t.sh: command substitution: line 4: `which gpg2)' Even something as simple as: echo $(uname) will produce the same error message. This is the output of bash --version GNU bash, version 4.0.10(1)-release (i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. If I can supply anything else, please let me know. -- Gerard ger...@seibercom.net
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